This paper explores what happens when artists fail to execute their goals. I argue that taxonomies of failure in general, and of failed-art in particular, should focus on the attempts which generate the failed-entity, and that to do this they must be sensitive to an attempt’s orientation. This account of failed-attempts delivers three important new insights into artistic practice: (1) there can be no accidental art, only deliberate and incidental art; (2) art’s intention-dependence entails the possibility of performative failure, but not of failed-art; and (3) art’s intention-dependence is perfectly compatible with the role that luck plays in artistic creation.

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意图的失败和失败的艺术

本文探讨了当艺术家未能实现他们的目标时会发生什么。我认为，一般的失败分类法，特别是失败艺术的分类法，应该关注产生失败实体的尝试，并且要做到这一点，它们必须对尝试的方向敏感。这种对失败尝试的描述为艺术实践提供了三个重要的新见解：（1）不可能有偶然的艺术，只有刻意和偶然的艺术；（2）艺术的意向依赖包含了表演失败的可能性，但不包含失败艺术的可能性；(3)艺术的意向依赖与运气在艺术创作中的作用完美契合。