Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 576 g
Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 576 g
Reihe: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
ISBN: 978-0-262-51477-4
Verlag: MIT PR
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.
Artists surveyed include Bas Jan
Ader, Francis Alÿs, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, David
Critchley, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Félix González-Torres, Wade Guyton, International Necronautical
Society, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Bruce
Nauman, Simon Patterson, Janette Parris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter
Roth, Allen Ruppersberg, Roman Signer, Annika Ström, Paul Thek, William
WegmanWriters include Giorgio Agamben, Samuel Beckett, Daniel Birnbaum, Bazon Brock,
Johanna Burton, Emma Cocker, Gilles Deleuze, Russell Ferguson, Ann Goldstein, Jörg
Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Richard Hylton, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Lisa Lee, Stuart
Morgan, Hans-Joachim Müller, Karl Popper, Edgar Schmitz, Coosje van Bruggen
