forays
Coming at a time when I’ve just had to repeatedly justify my practice in terms of explicit marketing frameworks, income generation and business strategies, this extract from “how to unload bags and practice failure” by Forays is really very soothing:
There is something about excessive, inefficient and pointless labour for the sake of art that is kind of beautiful. Maybe it is that labour in other contexts, like at our jobs, is usually equally as inefficient but there is a lie to it, the lie that it matters, which however meagrely keeps people going back to their jobs. But unloading a bag for nothing, for no result just makes its pointlessness explicit, so obviously useless, and in some strange way more satisfying. And, what is also beautiful is when you go into something with a goal and by the end the goal is destroyed and in place of the goal you are left with a situation.
how to unload bags and practice failure
I’m making a note of it here for my own benefit because it strongly relates to various projects I’ve been working on and, in particular, recent conversations regarding the Invigilator series: methinks I’ll be wanting to come back to this later.