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Performance

Tuesday, 11. December 2012 | 00:45 (tz: Europe/Amsterdam)

Unstable by design: failure is the central idea

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things are in a disarray;

designed to fall apart,
resistance is the privilege.

Accidents are not disruptions in the pattern, they are the norm. Every time things happen according to plan, it is a mistake. And this is not being pessimistic.

 

Flavio de Carvalho, Experiencia 3, 1956

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During a warm summer day of 1956, Flavio de Carvalho, an engineer and avant-garde artist from São Paulo, walked from home to his workplace wearing a self made suit he had given the name of “New Look: summer fashion for a new man”.