The Queer Art Of Failure Analysis
Based on Judith Halberstam’s reading, The Queer Art of Failure and Homosexuality and Facism, we live in a predominantly binary world. There are usually only two options for most things. For example, girl or boy, yes or no, succeed or fail…etc. For example, Halberstam mentions at the beginning of the reading that we have winners and losers in this world. The, “...losers leave no records, while winners cannot stop talking about it, and so the record of failure is ‘a hidden history of pessimism in a culture of optimism’”. This seems as if there is only failure and success. As in, you either succeed, live a good life, and history remembers your success, or you fail and become excluded from history. Furthermore, history is often omitted or alternated
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For example, the art of queer failure tries to break away from the binary system of either succeeding or failing. It creates a form of resistance to the binary system by doing something different. I feel that the queer art of failure and the idea of tell all of history is similar to the idea of just living and being genuine. For example, as Halberstam notes in the reading, failing does not strictly mean you are a loser. There are a lot more to it and failing is a form of resisting the dominant categories because you are doing something different form the norm. Likewise, even if some fact seems unpleasant to hear it is still important to know and acknowledge that it did happen.
This idea brings me back the thought of what is art. In one of our earlier readings, we question whether crime can be consider as art. I struggled with this question because I feel that a crime can be consider as both art and a crime. However, due to the binary system of art and crime, it seems that if something is label as a crime it is no longer art. Similarly, if something is art then it is not a crime. If you create art then you are an artist however if you instead get convicted then you are a failure and a criminal. I feel that something can both be art and also be a crime as
For example, the art of queer failure tries to break away from the binary system of either succeeding or failing. It creates a form of resistance to the binary system by doing something different. I feel that the queer art of failure and the idea of tell all of history is similar to the idea of just living and being genuine. For example, as Halberstam notes in the reading, failing does not strictly mean you are a loser. There are a lot more to it and failing is a form of resisting the dominant categories because you are doing something different form the norm. Likewise, even if some fact seems unpleasant to hear it is still important to know and acknowledge that it did happen.
This idea brings me back the thought of what is art. In one of our earlier readings, we question whether crime can be consider as art. I struggled with this question because I feel that a crime can be consider as both art and a crime. However, due to the binary system of art and crime, it seems that if something is label as a crime it is no longer art. Similarly, if something is art then it is not a crime. If you create art then you are an artist however if you instead get convicted then you are a failure and a criminal. I feel that something can both be art and also be a crime as