Failure, Understanding, Care ( & Kunst)

Trailer : Our New Series of Podcasts about the theme of ”Failure”

Hello, we are back! We are launching a new "series" of podcasts on Thursday 27th October with the first two episodes available for your listening pleasure, across all major streaming platforms.

The series will be interviews and conversations with artists we have worked with as part of "F.U.C(&K)", and a few we have not worked with, but thought it would make for an interesting conversation regardless. 

We release podcasts every Thursday now until the 9th December.

Apologies for the poor quality audio of this trailer - the audio quality in the episodes proper is a vast improvement of this!

 

On Failure: What is failure? It is something that most of us automatically recoil from, but is it really so terrible? What does it mean to fail? Is failure bad and is success good? Why does failure make us feel bad? Can art ever fail?

Ruth and James from F.U.C.(&K) talk to a variety of artists about their art practice, failure, art and beyond. We try to answer some of these questions and then some, and generally have a nice time chatting to some lovely people.

Including sounds and music created from the failures, errors, glitches and outtakes from our conversation recordings.

This podcast series was funded by Norsk Kulturrådet and made possible with the help of Nicholas Horne and Tromsø Academy of Arts.

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Casual conversations: Mental Health and the Environment: On How to Make Everything Better

Part two of the conversation with  Laurie Lax of Aerial.

In this conversation, we have a discussion on the consequences on mental health as a result of climate change, moving eventually on the topic of "how to stop climate change", and what the role of Failure, Understanding, Care (& Kunst) is in the context of «greening» the arts, especially in Norway.

This is the final episode on this series of conversation from the Failure, Understanding, Care (& Kunst) residency at Aerial.

 

 

Casual conversations: Nasty, Brutish and Short: On Sustainability, Babies and Frankie Boyle

Laure Lax, artist and one of the founding members of Aerial in Bergen, joins James S. Lee and Ruth Aitken part one of this two part conversation, centered primarily on sustainability.

Laure Lax is a Bergen based artist (originally from Bath, England) who also works as part of Prøverommet in Bergen in addition to being part of the curation at Aerial.

In this episode, they reflect on sustainable populations, Malthus, the rights and wrongs of having babies and contemporary "caring" culture.

Casual conversations: Failure and Success ( Part 2)

A follow up conversation from the last episode. This episode features Eleni Ieremia, as well as Bergen based D.J & musician Inish. 

Inish Sofia Hedén Næss, known simply as Inish, also runs the record label Spirals based in Bergen. 

Inish was a participant in the F.U.C (& K) workshop , a workshop initiated by artist Elind Rui Blix which took place in Bergen in spring 2021.

The conversation starts with a "re-cap" of the previous episode's ideas and subject matter, followed by a discussion of safe creative environments; a workshop Ruth participated in with Thomas Hirschhorn once; a rant against contemporary trends in Shakespeare adaptions by James ( sure to trigger many a literature enthusiast) as well as a discussion on the 2021 Disney film Cruella.  

 

 

 

 

 

Casual conversations: Failure and Success- On good and bad artwork

The second conversation from the "Failure, Understanding, Care (& Kunst)" residency at Aerial in Bergen in summer 2021. This time around, James S. Lee and Ruth Aitken from "Failure, Understanding, Care (& Kunst)" were joined by Greek/ Swedish artist Eleni Ieremia.

 

Eleni is an artist based in Bergen, graduating from KHiB this year. in this episode, they talk primarily about concepts of "success" and "failure", and what these mean in the context of making art.

Casual conversations: Sustainability in the Visual Arts - On Facebook and Social Media

The very first conversation that happened in "Aerial", Bergen, Norway, between James S. Lee and Ruth Aitken, the artists and curators behind "Failure, Understanding, Care ( & Kunst)", a project based in Tromsø, Norway.

 

In this conversation they talk on the impact of Facebook on the climate, the extractive economy of social media sites and what a future landscape of social media could look like.