POETICS OF FAILURE inspired by Documents of
contemporary Art
This book
covers: Dissatisfaction and rejection; idealism and doubt; error and
incompetence; the experiment and progress.
Artistically | Theoretically | Commercially | Conceptually |
Culturally | Logistically – are all in the realm
of ‘not knowing’.
Is failure a claim of
wrongness that suggests ‘imperfection’.
What is wrong with
imperfection?
For me: it is a failure to
not see the value or beauty in something. Living with no challenges or
curiosity would be a failure. Failure is an act of bravery and courage. Failure
is a different direction to the norm. Failure stretches and expands new
possibilities of thinking and existing. Failure is a positive move away from
Hegemony, from authority and dictatorship.
I see dissatisfaction and rejection as a barometer for improvement or
adjustment to progress.
Who is feeling dissatisfied and
who is rejecting what?
What is the failure based on
and what ideal is being doubted?
Does the author feel they
have made the error and feel incompetent of the reader?
What if failure was a temporary
route or process to something successful?
The Salon de refuse was a
success!
Is failure just a label.
A mistake can be changed and
has potential.
Dissatisfaction can be
improved.
Failure is an attitude or
judgement of something.
My intention is to rely on
the potential of something to be born out of it. To rely on uncertainty, instability and the
unexpected.
Failure is a closed negative
judgement or attitude to prevent moving out of a comfort zone.
To fail is to be brave of the
unknown.
To fail there is a notion of
expectation.
Every failure is an
opportunity.
Failure is a cul-de-sack.
If there is no certainty with
a structure, or stability, then how can you have failure?
Is failure just a label of
rejection, a paradox between being vulnerable and brutalised?
How does one measure failure?
Or is it just doubt and rejection.
Is failure something you
didn’t do, that you set out to do?
What is your strategy to
illuminate failure?
Doubt | Anxiety | Fear |
Uncertainty | Wrongness of a work |
The un-anticipated - are
human processes that open up the potential of failure.
Experimentation and problem
solving – are vital to art practice and is a learning process.
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School of life 'on confidence'
Be reliably rediculous
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School of life 'on confidence'
- inspired definitions :
- inevitable ridculousness
- committed idiocies, i have committed an idiocy.
- unavoidable landmarks
Be reliably rediculous
