SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

Travel
On foot
By plane
Control of participation
Guided / precise / careful / minimal
Anarchic / messy / unpredictable / expansive
Situation with audience
Risky
Predictable
Absence
Imposed
Chosen
Big / Little Brother
sense of guide's strong authority and control
sense of vulnerability / fragility in the guide, he/she/it needs our assistance
Engagement Period
One Performance / Workshop
Weekly sessions / Yearly Collaborations
Active audience
mentally active
physical active
Sensorial experience
One sense
Multiplicity of senses
Performer
Non-human
Human
Experience
Individual
Collective
Absence as
compromise
benefit
Presence
Artist absent
Artist present
The experience of participation as
Affirmative
Antagonistic
Adaptation
Existing form
Showing Without Going
Addressing absence and distance in the work
Address as an explicit content
Address as implicit content
Laziness as
selective participation
energy management
Location
Familiar
Unfamiliar
Responsibility
Individual
Shared
Technical Requirements
No Use of Technology Necessary
Advanced & Hi-Technology Necessary
Audience
Spectator
Co-creator
Control
Lost
Total
Responsibility
Artist
Host
Responsibility
Artist
Audience
Relationship with audience
Trusting
Controlling
Awareness of artifice, absence, (a)liveness
Aware / sure
Unaware / unsure
Format
Fixed / pre-recorded
Live / responsive
Site
Neutral
Site-responsive / site-specific
Identity of Artist
Known
Anonymous
Space & Connectivity
Offline
Online
Preparation
Unrehearsed
Rehearsed
Audience
witnessing
spectating
Duration
A moment
Infinity
Mode of transmission
Experiential (i.e. physical, relational, immersive....)
Transference (i.e. representation, audience as observer....)
Authorship
Copyright
Open Source
Required availability of the artist
Completely available
Completely unneccesary
Technology as
Tool
Co-creator