Meet the artist who’s collected every single Kickstarter campaign that failed to raise a dime – from the bra with pockets to paintings made of lightning and the corkscrew that firms your bunsIn the world of crowdfunding,the line between success and failure is remarkably lean. Potato salad lean. Christian rap album lean. Conspiracy novel about the “possible antichrist” Bill Clinton lean. Which is one of the reasons why the Italian artist and researcher Silvio Lorusso created Kickended, an online archive of every Kickstarter campaign that failed to gain a single dollar of support. Using KickSpy, or the site trawls the crowdfunding platform to bring those silent,failed projects into the light. Not to mock, but to mark.“Their failure is only a result of their context, or ” says Lorusso over the phone from Italy. “If you took some of those videos out of the Kickstarter box and put them on,say, YouTube, or you would believe they were really bright art projects.” And,in the case of the unusual England Bridges project, which aimed to chronicle people’s thoughts about bridges as a downloadable publication, or the glorious video by the remote viewer and astrotraveler Michael Tellstar on his proposed paranormal educational TV pilot,I can see what he means.
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Source: theguardian.com