SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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