In Viewer the ‘performer’ is explicitly met in mediation: fully visible and absent. In this removal, however, Viewer works to upset the ‘distance’ constructed in representation. In such projections, Hill remarks, ‘I want the body - literally and metaphorically - in your face’ (Hill in Sans 1999: 73), noting that such 'physicality' 'questions conceptual structures used to make work and undermines the cognitive aspect by a sheer visceral presence' (Hill in Sans 1999: 71).

"Phenomenology [...] proposes that the status of being is not an absolute condition but one that changes relative to changes in the experience of the real. Irrespective of whether electronic 'presences' can be said to exist in real spaces, experience of those spaces remains a 'real' experience." (Cooke 2000: 136)

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