"Fail Your Rubblish Art!" / "Låt dina döda fall falla!" Written by Mick Wilson and published before the symposium Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art, 28 & 29 September 2023 in Lund, Sweden.
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Abstract: Where to begin with thinking about failure? Some lean against the rub of another relic? “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” The LTH Fountain is a public artwork that is generally understood to have failed. Its enigmatic skeletal remains now stand amid Lund’s university campus buildings as a dimly perceived relic from a bygone moment of techno-utopian modernism.
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Banner image: Screen grab of Google image search return on Samuel Beckett and “fail again /better” meme.