Against the Apparatus

AbstractPermanently emerging new techniques present a growing challenge and an increasing state of excitement. The experimenting artist works against the apparatus; he or she is looking for possibilities to make the program fail. Their aim in doing so is to highlight the significant features; to ask the fundamental questions. There is no such thing as bad, abandoned raw material. The “aesthetics of failure” and/or effect of destroying may become yet more accentuated nowadays. The error is a magical/transcendent strength. The error, the chance work like blood transfusion – they are thrilling. The chance is a coherent mass the components of which are unknown. In this way it appears to us as failure.