In the Master thesis I continue to explore the topic of failure and the impossible task. It is the starting point for the practical works. I introduce five projects, which are: Nowhere fast, Everything Is Just a Fucking Game to You, Good Luck Scoring!, Caution! You Are Breathing Private Air and O2/180+. The projects are based on the use of the art of failure as a method of subverting capitalism. The main theme established in Nowhere Fast – Sisyphus' work, 'never getting anywhere', not reaching the goal – runs through all the works. With the works I extend the research into the issues of value, ecology, the absurd, and furthermore social and ecological issues in consumer society. I address the problem of the need to own everything – including 'nothing'. Also, I question what is considered as (non-)work and (un)productivity in today's society. Are we really making progress? How to use art as a form of resistance? In the works, I play around with the impossible pre-set tasks that are doomed to fail. I deliver 'solutions' that do not provide any realistic solutions at all. With that I reflect on the absurdities of contemporary life.
Finally, everything is possible! So why not fail better?
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