Failure Support Group February 29, 2008

performance artist, musician, ux designer and poet lou suSi will be one of several 'failures' presenting a 5 minute talk about failure and the creative process. Here are the details :

Art projects fail a lot, particularly those that are participatory, public and/or social. They fail for different reasons and cause myriad revelations. Nevertheless, the structures that we use to talk about these works and contexts where they are presented often don’t leave room for discussing the failures plainly and objectively.

We’re interested in failure – in its relationship to creative production, artistic rhetoric and public presentation. So interested, in fact, that we want to share ours and hear about yours.

We invite you to join us for a Failure Support Group, an evening survey of failed processes and failed projects (yours and ours). Is there, actually, a recipe for failure? Are certain methodologies more prone to failure than others? How? What is at stake in acknowledging failure – in one’s process, one’s community, or one’s career?

Bad coffee, ‘nilla wafers, and accordion accompaniment provided.

Official Website: http://www.janemarsching.com/platform2/