LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images Symposium
May 26-27
ICA Theatre, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

In addition to the talks programme, the students of the LUX/Central Saint-Martins MRes Art: Moving Image course will co-produce a two-day student symposium for UK-based MA and PhD students to present their research into artists’ moving image. The two days will explore ideas around ‘failure’ and ‘contemporary currents’.

On Failure
Saturday 26 May, 10am – 1pm, ICA Theatre

Keynote address: Jan Verwoert, Why Rudie Can’t Fail
Jan Verwoert is a critic, writer, curator, art historian, and contributing editor to Frieze magazine.

Further papers by:

Anirban Gupta-Nigam, Failure as Possibility: Reading Two Fragments of Moving-Image Work
Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Delhi

Conventionally, in radical political and aesthetic practice, the body of the exhausted person is sought to be energised, radicalised and politicised. Failed, exhausted bodies must be re-energised so that they can engage in the project of (political) transformation. Following a different path, through a reading of two fragments of moving-image work, this paper argues for failure as possibility and attempts to locate exhaustion and failure as potentiality, as moments when, freed from the teleology of the search for a ‘better future’, we see every moment in the now as being open to various possible futures.