SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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