With texts by Paula Alzugaray, Raïssa de Góes, Alice Miceli, Gunalan Nadarajan
El amigo Sergio, de Berlín que conozco porque es tio de Solange, me comentó un proyecto que me hizo bastante gracia: Several Pursuits. Esta gente ha creado un archivo de proyectos rechazados a partir de su "call for rejects". Después de esto, están montando un simposio acerca del fracaso del 5 al 7 de noviembre que me espero no perder.
En palabras de ellas:
PURSUIT: FAILURE
FAILURE is essential to all greatness, not merely in providing its contrast but as an essential part of the processes of growing, experimenting, learning and living. We cherish the ever failing C. Chaplin or Homer S. for their Sisyphusian predicaments, we quote Beckett, film in obsolete media and yet at the same time hardly any artist dares to embrace the option of artistic practice as failure itself.
For its first project SEVERAL PURSUITS gathers positions and reflections to explore meaning and possible potential of failure in contemporary visual art.
After our CALL FOR REJECTS as a first stage of the project in 2009, many artists have followed the call and submitted images and accounts of works of art that they have rejected themselves yet hung onto. See the full archive of REJECTS.
Como no, la banda sonora deben ser los pixies.