SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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