In this lecture, Adam told us about failures, and their positive aspects. It was a very alleviating lecture, especially given the amount of failures that I had encountered in the past few weeks with my work.
The three main points of the discussion revolved around:
1 -What is Failure
2- What does it mean to fail
3-Failure as a method
It touched on meme culture and the philosophy of laughing, who and what governs failure, codes of success and looking at failure as a utopia.
I was particularly interested in the concepts of failure amateurism and capitalist realism. I wrote down “failure as a weapon to the weak” and “rejection of logic of failure”.
Adam finished the lecture by telling us to grab a piece that we had made and purposefully make it fail, which was a great relief of an experience. I took my full length portrait of “Black Cowboy” that I had made for a previous project and scribbled it in bright colours. Strangely enough it was less of a failure than the work I had made during that past week.
I found that I could adapt the language that I had been talking about in this very specific way, applying layers of “scribbles”, I am one step closer to what I wish to achieve.
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