Artists have long turned their attention to the unrealizability of the quest for perfection, or the open-endness of experiment, using both dissatisfaction and error as means to rethink how we understand our place in the world.
No one set out to strive for failure. However, to strive to fail is to go against the socially normalised drive towards ever increasing success.
When Failure is released from judgemental term, and success deemed overrated, the embrace of failure can become an act of bravery, of daring to go beyond normal practices and enter the realm of not-knowing.
---------- from Introduction of Failure, Strive to Fail, Lisa Le Feuvre.
Not only the description and analysis of failure, the writer also gave us some examples to see how the artist embrace their failure, or show the failures that overturn impression we had on this subject.
The American Artist Robert Rauschenberg after erasing his own painting and knowing that doesn't do anything, in this video, also in this work, he recognises himself as an artist isn't as successful as (RR: It has to begin with art.) William de Kooning. So he took a bottle of Jack Daniel to De Kooning's house and assumed two different versions of how his works could turn out to be failed.
1) He went to De Kooning's house and hoping De Kooning wasn't at home. ---- But he was home.
2) After De Kooning says that he wasn't up for it, RR expected that he would say no! ---- But at the end he picks an artwork that he thinks it is really difficult to erase.
Robert Rauschenberg spent a month and 15 eraser to erase the painting.
Pieces I Never Did - Apples by David Critchley.
Artist David Critchley's work "Pieces I Never Did" consisting of 18 ideas that is never made it into production.
It includes films, installation, performance, and sculpture, each one never moving go beyond notes in a sketchbook.
Another Artist Michael Landy creates an giant art bin that he asks his artists friends to bin the works that they thought they might not exhibit at all in the future, or just doesn't work.
Feurve talks about the self-censorship here often defines a creative act as a failure before it has been released into the unpredictable realm of the public.
Since the standard for the artist's self censorship is perfect, the failure is doomed to happen.
There are only a perfect resolution and be a work of art, and being archives as a piece of work.
Here she also talks about Balzac's account in the book " The Unknown Masterpiece (1831)" and it accounts the gaps between intention, expectation and realisation.
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