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Questions
Transcending I-other
Advantages
Time and space shared
Not Your Thing?
What is the opposite of travel?
Outcomes
Not travelling due to strenuous visa demands
Physical contact from a distance
The importance of being lazy
Preparation
Insisting on Presence
Control
Amount of Partner Countries Involved
Out of control
Responsibility of the Audience
Responsibility
Responsibility - artist/host
Technology
Payment when absent
How to collaborate at a distance?
Finding a common language
Feedback and Evaluation
Respect
Power
Environment
Consequence / Impact / Usefulness
Local
Whose non-travel is being enabled?
Timing
Impact
A new set of legal and contractual negotiations?
Power dynamics
Authorship
Funding Structure
Audience
Disability
Technology access and supporting infrastructure
Longevity - models of legacy
A relationship between absence and death?
Imprint
How often can it happen?
Collective
“Liveness”
Collaboration vs implementation
What is affordable…
Levels and tiers of participation ~ spectatorship
Technology / Working in new sectors
Risk in performance
Theatre staff - New roles, responsibilities, wages?
Which language do we speak?
Spectrums
Site
Neutral
Site-responsive / site-specific
Responsibility
Artist
Host
Responsibility
Artist
Audience
Travel
On foot
By plane
Mode of transmission
Experiential (i.e. physical, relational, immersive....)
Transference (i.e. representation, audience as observer....)
Audience
Spectator
Co-creator
Identity of Artist
Known
Anonymous
Laziness as
selective participation
energy management
Technical Requirements
No Use of Technology Necessary
Advanced & Hi-Technology Necessary
Experience
Individual
Collective
Required availability of the artist
Completely available
Completely unneccesary
Duration
A moment
Infinity
Performer
Non-human
Human
Engagement Period
One Performance / Workshop
Weekly sessions / Yearly Collaborations
Absence as
compromise
benefit
Control of participation
Guided / precise / careful / minimal
Anarchic / messy / unpredictable / expansive
Preparation
Unrehearsed
Rehearsed
Active audience
mentally active
physical active
Situation with audience
Risky
Predictable
Adaptation
Existing form
Showing Without Going
Sensorial experience
One sense
Multiplicity of senses
Format
Fixed / pre-recorded
Live / responsive
Awareness of artifice, absence, (a)liveness
Aware / sure
Unaware / unsure
Control
Lost
Total
The experience of participation as
Affirmative
Antagonistic
Space & Connectivity
Offline
Online
Addressing absence and distance in the work
Address as an explicit content
Address as implicit content
Responsibility
Individual
Shared
Presence
Artist absent
Artist present
Audience
witnessing
spectating
Absence
Imposed
Chosen
Authorship
Copyright
Open Source
Relationship with audience
Trusting
Controlling
Location
Familiar
Unfamiliar
Technology as
Tool
Co-creator
Big / Little Brother
sense of guide's strong authority and control
sense of vulnerability / fragility in the guide, he/she/it needs our assistance
Statements
Interlinking climate change with other challenges
Travel Limitations
Censorship
Beyond solutions or restrictions
There are many reasons for Showing Without Going
Implications of technology race
Data and Privacy Protection
Regional Imbalance