SHOWING WITHOUT GOING

Spectrums

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