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Failure has been a long time linked to humiliation and embarrassment in people’s mind. When it happens, it seems to be the end of the story and no-one wants to continue the discussion about it. I started to question these situations and analyse what failure is. | Failure has been a long time linked to humiliation and embarrassment in people’s mind. When it happens, it seems to be the end of the story and no-one wants to continue the discussion about it. I started to question these situations and analyse what failure is. | ||
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Failure as the opposite of success has rarely been treated as an individuality. In my opinion, success always contains luck. And success has very little chance to be reproduced in similar ways. Failure, however, contains logic and consequence, shows the way avoiding errors and provide experience that can be applied in other different cases. | Failure as the opposite of success has rarely been treated as an individuality. In my opinion, success always contains luck. And success has very little chance to be reproduced in similar ways. Failure, however, contains logic and consequence, shows the way avoiding errors and provide experience that can be applied in other different cases. | ||
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Based on my concept about failure, I designed an interactive device. The device is consisted by a website and a printer. Audience can upload individual stories of failure to the website, the story will be sent to the printer and be printed out on an award paper. | Based on my concept about failure, I designed an interactive device. The device is consisted by a website and a printer. Audience can upload individual stories of failure to the website, the story will be sent to the printer and be printed out on an award paper. | ||
Revision as of 17:44, 6 January 2019
Failure has been a long time linked to humiliation and embarrassment in people’s mind. When it happens, it seems to be the end of the story and no-one wants to continue the discussion about it. I started to question these situations and analyse what failure is.
Failure as the opposite of success has rarely been treated as an individuality. In my opinion, success always contains luck. And success has very little chance to be reproduced in similar ways. Failure, however, contains logic and consequence, shows the way avoiding errors and provide experience that can be applied in other different cases.
Based on my concept about failure, I designed an interactive device. The device is consisted by a website and a printer. Audience can upload individual stories of failure to the website, the story will be sent to the printer and be printed out on an award paper.
The picture I used as award background comes from my own culture. In my school life back in China, every time before the school year officially ends, teachers come in to our classroom with a stack of award paper. Award for instance, the top 5 students gain the most credits, would be issued to certain students. It became extreme and generally became a standard of judging if the student is good or not. For students have no award it became humiliating.
I also had difficulties of facing this issue in that period. I thought it as vague reputation and an unfair way to judge students. But in the other way around, I can barely not to influenced by the atmosphere when most of my classmates are approved and fascinated by this system.
Reference
Fail it!
Erik Kessels
https://de.phaidon.com/store/general-non-fiction/failed-it-9780714871196/
The Queer Art of Failure
J. Jack Halberstam
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1581/The-Queer-Art-of-Failure
Fourth
Tracey Moffatt
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/154.2011.17/
Error the Art of Imperfection 2018 Ars Electronica Festival
