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.

Many artists have followed our CALL FOR REJECTS last year and submitted images and accounts of works of art that they have rejected themselves yet hung onto. The full gallery of rejects is on view on our website http://www.severalpursuits.org/?page_id=79.

For the next stage of this PURSUIT we are looking for texts and papers that deal with the concept of FAILURE, in particular for those that deal with the concept in an experimental or otherwise novel approach, but are also interested in more academic formats. We are hoping to gather new ideas from this material to form the structures of a more experimental symposium format, to take place in Berlin in 2010.

We look forward to receiving your thoughts, snippets, anecdotes, scripts and poems - let them be suggestive, instructive, constructive or destructive - we are curious about your ideas!

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