PURSUIT: FAILURE | CALL FOR REJECTS

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 is hoping to gather positions and reflections to explore meaning and possible potential of failure in contemporary visual art.

CALL FOR REJECTS

In this initial stage we are looking to gather accounts and documents of what visual artists consider their creative failures, to investigate the parameters and the elasticity of such a term.

To contribute please send us an image of an artwork of yours that you yourself have rejected alongside a description of the rejected project. Whatever your reason for holding onto them, we want to hear about them and look forward to receiving images, scans and snaps of those works which got caught at the back of your plan-chest drawer, that are gathering dust on top of your shelves or languishing on a hard-drive somewhere.

If there are no images of it because the work no longer exists or was never made, then please send us a sketch or a description of the project.

Ideally please send us images (png|jpeg|pdf|jpg|gif, max size 3MB) and texts to info at severalpursuits dot org. Please state explicitly if you do not want your name, the image and your account of your work to appear on our website - otherwise we assume that you agree for it to be posted on severalpursuits.org. Of course your contact details are kept confidential and are only used by us to contact you.

SEVERAL PURSUITS is a Berlin based curatorial practice formed by Valeska Bührer and Pauline Hanson.

SEVERAL PURSUITS provides a platform for cultural international exchange in the arts both online and in changing locations in Berlin. All projects are based on dialogue and exchange of ideas, aiming to provide a counterpoint to institutional, educational or market-driven debates on contemporary art rooted in practice / the everyday practice of life.

Contact: info at severalpursuits dot org

For further information please visit http://www.severalpursuits.org/