SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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