“In the sciences, the concept of failure is a natural part of experimentation. If you want to learn how a process works, or develop a new one yourself, the scientific method demands that you try, fail, and try again. But in the arts, failure is often seen as a dirty word—no one wants to be responsible for a critical or commercial flop. But without taking risks and pushing boundaries, art would remain stagnant, and the creative spirit would be wasted on our own fears.”
In this session, guests and audience members are invited to discuss the importance of risk, bravery and failure in the artistic process. How do you cultivate new collaborations that will celebrate creative risks? What do our table guests see as the future of contemporary artistic practice for the industry? How we can imagine new models of making and sharing work?
Provocateurs: Mel Cantwell (Host), Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, James O’Hara, Joe Lui Paradise, Rachael Dease and Zohar Spatz