The Queer Art of Failure

THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE WP

With World premieres by Eloain Hübner and Laure Martin Hiendl

Performances as part of »Das kalte Herz«’, an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

and as part of »Sommer in Stuttgart«

Ensemble Aventure

Jack Halberstam’s idea of failure as a queer, productive and transformative strategy inspired this project. Imperfection, instability and non-linearity are not treated as flaws, but as deliberate artistic methods that resist normative expectations of mastery, progress and coherence. The exhibition ‘The Cold Heart’ takes Wilhelm Hauff’s fairy tale of the same name as its starting point to reflect on the relationship between identity and social status. Within the context of the exhibition, the project highlights contemporary practices in which all artists work across media–electronics, video, performance–and embrace the unfinished, the provisional and the fragile. In this sonic-performative field, queerness becomes a method: through disruption, reconfiguration and persistent attempts that fail, shift and remerge.

A collaboration between the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg, the Stuttgart Art Museum, Ensemble Aventure Freiburg and Musik der Jahrhunderte, in partnership with the Animation Institute at the Film Academy BW