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Strive to Fail!

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Even if Lisa le Freuvre presents the idea in the context of art-making in “Strive to Fail,” her statement that “the endemic presence of failure … is the gap between intention and realization” (13) is worth applying to a wider social context. The gap she speaks of is worth playing around with, too: cutting it apart or covering it up, as we shall see. At the very least, even if read in terms of artistic production, it is helpful to ask what happens when the relationship between intention and realization doesn’t have its idealized, one-to-one relationship between content and form. Or, to consider what happens when the intention is instead transformed or deformed through its realization.

Le Feuvre, Lisa. "Introduction: Strive to Fail." Failure. Ed. Le Feuvre, Lisa. Cambridge: MIT Press and London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2010. 12-21. Print. Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art. Ed. Blazwick, Iwona.

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