I Fail Good presents in October and November an ode to failure. Beursschouwburg opens a window on an uncertain world, where all that is weak, failed and dysfunctional is celebrated as an opportunity. Where artists themselves set up the trap and then spontaneously walk right into it. And where, at the end of the day, we find what we were not looking for.*
Why do something around failure? Well, anyone who undertakes something, risks failure. Failure is often the result of a positive action. And yet failure today has a very pejorative ring. Pity, because the danger of failing and the beauty of it possess a positive power.
The neo-liberal society has everything that’s wrong, that seems abhorrent, that doesn’t function well, forced into the margin. There seems to be no space for searching, it has to be found. No time for failure, achieving success is the only option. But irony, oh! Irony … recently it seems that the neo-liberal system itself is failing: the world economy has been ailing for quite some time, political fragmentation leads to disorientation and our social model seems to be going with it, unresisting, into the abyss.
And so, what about art? Is art still the only area which does bestow belief onto what has failed, is weak, useless and dysfunctional? This brings us to the core of I Fail Good, the Beursschouwburg’s first focus, and what it wants to offer you: a window on an uncertain world, where failure is celebrated as an opportunity. Where artists themselves set the trap and then afterwards spontaneously walk right into it. Where art finds what it wasn’t looking for.
