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Article: Art failure: Lisa Le Feuvre discusses the paradoxes of failure in art.
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- Art Monthly
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- February 1, 2008
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LAST YEAR AN EXHIBITION AT KUNSTHAUS BASELLAND, TITLED 'THE ART OF FAILURE', EXPLORED WAYS ARTISTS HAVE RESPONDED TO UNCERTAINTY AND INSTABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY. Identifying failure as a symptom of our times, the selection of artworks included Ceal Floyer's Trash which turned attention to discarded material from computer-user interfaces; Deimantas Narkevicius's Once in the XX Century showing the dismantling of a Lenin monument in Vilnius; and Rosemarie Trockel's Continental Divide where the artist fights and argues with her double over the question, 'who is the best artist?' The 2006 Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art presented a ...