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Failure - personal tragedy or opportunity for a fresh start, innovation and success? Failure has long been taboo in the meritocracy. In recent years, however, we have seen a shift in the view of failure in the arts, in counselling books and in the world of work, where it is seen as a positive, innovative potential. This shift in meaning is also fuelled by neoliberal logics. The lecture performance encourages discussion of the question of whether the new failure liberates or sparks new expectations.

Paula-Marie Kanefendt works in the fields of art, science and education - currently as a research assistant at the University of Siegen. Among other things, she studied media art at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and wrote her doctoral thesis on failure in art education knowledge.