An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
– John Cage
Failure is something we are ashamed of, we want to hide it, make it unnoticeable. While success integrates, failure always means possible exclusion or rejection. What defines failure in the first place depends not only on individual but also on social and structural parameters. The format ”Failure as Practice” artistically deals with the topic, scratches at norms of social perception, existing relations of power and premises of social coexistence. It playfully explores the transformative power of mistakes and failures.
In a series of interventions, six participating artists encounter the audience. In various experimental set-ups, they face paradoxical, sometimes unsolvable tasks that not only confront the performers but also the audience with the question of how we deal with failure. Human weaknesses and vulnerabilities are addressed and a collective experience is created.
This event is an introductions to the next practice module, which will be realized in Weld in 2025, in collaboration with local artists from Stockholm.
November 10th 5pm-8pm. Read more here