Failure
Amid the global uncertainties of our times, failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Celebrating failed promises and myths of the avant-garde, or setting out to realize seemingly impossible tasks, artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged, and risk considered a viable strategy. The abstract possibilities opened up by failure are further reinforced by the problems of physically realizing artworks--wrestling with ideas, representation, and object-making. By amplifying both theoretical and practical failure, artists have sought new, unexpected ways of opening up endgame situations, ranging from the ideological shadow of the white cube to unfulfilled promises of political emancipation. Between the two subjective poles of success and failure lies a space of potentially productive operations where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This collection of writings, statements, mediations, fictions, polemics, and discussions identifies failure as a core concern in cultural production. Failure identifies moments of thought that have eschewed consensus, choosing to address questions rather than answers.
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Agamben Giorgio (Article author), Thornton Sarah (Article author), Berger John Peter (Article author), Wegman William (Article author), Birnbaum Daniel (Article author), Roth Dieter (Article author), Kierkegaard Søren (Article author), Wilson Michael (Article author), Prince Mark (Article author), Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann (Article author), Higgie Jennifer (Article author), Brock Bazon (Article author), Ferguson Russell (Article author), Burton Johanna (Article author), Verhagen Marcus (Article author), Burden Chris (Article author), Gillick Liam (Article author), Bruggen Coosje van (Article author), Dexter Emma (Article author), Weiss David (Article author), Lee Lisa (Article author), Cage John (Article author), Dillon Brian (Article author), Deleuze Gilles (Article author), Smithson Robert (Article author), Gillman Clive (Article author), Fischli Peter (Article author), Heiser Jörg (Article author)
London
2010
238 pages
9780262514774
Available on request
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