Faile Presentation

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FAILE@Brooklyn

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on Oct 2nd

The FAILE & BÄST Deluxx Fluxx Arcade, Brooklyn Museum, 2015

FAILEWolf Within 2015, Marble and bronze

FAILE, a Brooklyn-based collaboration between artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, raises questions about our relationship to consumer culture, religious traditions, and urban environments by blurring the boundaries between fine art, street art, and popular culture.

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The works on view include multimedia installations, large-scale paintings, and sculptures that appropriate imagery from a wide variety of sources, including American quilts, folk and Native American art, religious architecture, pulp magazines, comic books, sci-fi movie posters, adult entertainment advertisements, and storefront typography.

• Reactions…• Karf: The colors are fascinating • Gissell: The way the artists use the colors, it jumps

out at you, it’s distracting. • Ruhith: Incorporates LOTS of kinds of art, pulp,

neon…• Jon: the layout of the room is kinda rare, unique.

• Reactions…• AYYY: It’s cute it’s different like usually you see art under

white lights, but this has COME ALIVE!• Sof:ATTENTION GRABBING! So vibrant with color, it’s

intriguing Raph: Overwhelming!RD: Hard to focus on one thing. “unique” don’t see stuff like this often (all this stuff being called “art”)

• Lexi: It’s immersive, even the floor is done. • Alannis: Exciting, because everything is artistic…everything

is art.

“Our work is about narratives, telling stories, and searching for meaning through modern mythology and archetypes—it’s

almost like sifting for gold.”Archetype ideas:

Knowing what something about a character’s personality that is based on appearance, a stereotype or past media…

Thanks to Brianna, Sammy Davis Jr., and Brian

How do these artistic intentions affect our interpretations??

Regina George = Antagonist / VillainFlash Thompson = JocksSuperman, Spiderman = Hero

Meanwhile on the street…

2010Greenpoint,

Brooklyn

2010Greenpoint,

Brooklyn

More Faile stencils on Dobbin and Norman and Lorimer and Nassau

Back to the installation….GAMES!

• SDjr: Games help convey messages to people who want to do MORE than stare at a picture, they can interact with it and learn about things easier.

• Brian: Games can tell a story, Alan Wake for example, is about a writer who goes on vacation and everything he’s written has come to life and he has to rewrite his stories to save his wife.

• Kaireif: Games can carry emotions just like images• Gissell: Games can be competitive like MarioKart• Jarrell: Walking Dead video game• Myar: Video Games are like oral tradiational stories but a visual version,

making them a reality. • Nyasiah: Games can carry our emotional feelings from fiction to reality. • Lensei: Super Smash Bro’s has characters that entice curiosity. • KEVIN: Games allow us to connect to these new universes, new ideas, new

plots, etc.

How can games be used as an art form?

• Lexi: Video games can be art…like painting and sculpting…but it’s like animation but you can INTERACT with it.

• Tina: Games can have meaning, or a goal that you learn. “GTA5: if you’re not a bad person, you won’t make it in life.”Raymond Mora

• Sam AYYY: “Oregon Trail taught me about westward expansion and dysentery.”

• Justin: “Assasin’s Creed-revelations taught me that if you believe what everyone tells you, you won’t be your own person. Ya gotta make your own rules if you want to change the world for the better.

• Guzzy: You can learn new ways to deal with problems.• VICKY PT: Games can--GOD DAMMIT—(giggle) be able to tie in with our

personal lives, and people can RELATE to what the game’s artists are trying to say.

Gaming!

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The exhibition includes The FAILE & BÄST Deluxx Fluxx Arcade, an interactive installation created in collaboration with Brooklyn artist Bäst that includes video games, pinball machines, and foosball tables that are both aesthetic sculptures and functioning games.

The installation is a nostalgic nod to video arcades and punk rock and graffiti culture.

• Guidelines for Brooklyn Museum Visitors

• * Pencils only• * Do not touch the artwork• * No food or drink• * Photography without a flash is acceptable.

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Why would the artists offer Souvenirs in this installation?

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Why would the artists offer Souvenirs in this installation?

Taeron: Like those flattened pennies at the Seaport or ChuckECheese Jon: To help you remember the time you had at this place…and the impact it had on you. Myar: kinda like bringing a part of the museum back to your home. If ya forget. MicheLLe: It’s like a TANGIBLE memory. So if you never go back again, you’ve got a piece of that experience.

Why would the artists offer Souvenirs in this installation?

AYYYYY: A sign that you had a good time. Guzzy: maybe it’s a marketing tactic, you get their name out there. It’s a conversation starter. Zenzi: Souvenirs are a way to remember the experience Nawal: This could be a form of trademarking the installation…claims the artwork as their own.Sof: It’s a LITERAL takeaway, of remembering that experience.

FAILEThe Wolf Within2015Marble and bronze

FAILEThe Wolf Within2015Marble and bronze

Info..Inspired by a Native American proverb: “A starving man will eat with the wolf.” This sculpture of a businessman tearing away his suit and donning a wolf pelt is based on a print created by FAILE in 2008.

IDEAS:Myar: We’re all working ourselves to death.Karf: This depiction of a man is breaking FREE of a corporate mindset….becoming…ANIMAL.Brian: A corporate WOLF….a term for folks out there just to get money SELFISHLY.Lensei: Quietude and SILENCE…like the wolf is holding him back.

Info..Inspired by a Native American proverb: “A starving man will eat with the wolf.” This sculpture of a businessman tearing away his suit and donning a wolf pelt is based on a print created by FAILE in 2008.IDEAS:Alannis: like seeing two versions of the man: THE BEAST and THE HUMAN! He’s letting go of one side and becoming the other.RT: Pickin up with the wolf on wall street. Ray: The character is white, the tie is black…the difference of materials represents how the tie is NO LONGER a part of him.Guzz-Styles: Nature vs. Nurture…the tie aint natural…but that wolf piece is closer to his animalistic side. Kara: Animalistic tendencies may be related to COMPETITION! Or situations where we have EXTREME emotions (Arvin)

The original image Eat With The Wolf was produced at the height of an economic boom. The figure’s transformation portrays an internal battle between corporate greed on the one hand, and spiritual connection to the natural world on the other.

FAILEEat with the Wolf2008Mixed media

Info..Inspired by a Native American proverb: “A starving man will eat with the wolf.” This sculpture of a businessman tearing away his suit and donning a wolf pelt is based on a print created by FAILE in 2008.

IDEAS:

2012 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

THE TEMPLEAlso on view is FAILE’s Temple, a life-size structure reminiscent of a ruined religious temple. Made of iron, ceramic reliefs, and painted ceramics, and incorporating prayer wheels and popular-culture imagery, Temple imagines a reaction against commercial development and consumer greed.

THE TEMPLE FAILETemple2010Ceramic, marble, bronze, cast iron steel, limestone

THE TEMPLE

FAILETemple2010Ceramic, marble, bronze, cast iron steel, limestone

THE TEMPLE

FAILETemple2010Ceramic, marble, bronze, cast iron steel, limestone

THE TEMPLE

THE TEMPLEFAILETemple2010Ceramic, marble, bronze, cast iron steel, limestone

The Temple was originally installed in Lisbon, Portugal…and it evokes ruined religious architecture.

paintings“The paintings are definitely from what we have learned and done on the street. You can't do all that shit without learning something from it. Working in the studio definitely creates its own thing but it just can't be as abstract as it is on the street. On the street you get that accidental collage type of things happening. Like when you put up a poster and it gets layered with all this other random stuff and a year later you just have some crazy composition going on. You can't plan that in the studio.”

--Patrick McNeil

Invasion Dream Club2015Acrylic and Silkscreen on Canvas

paintings“The paintings are definitely from what we have learned and done on the street. You can't do all that shit without learning something from it. Working in the studio definitely creates its own thing but it just can't be as abstract as it is on the street. On the street you get that accidental collage type of things happening. Like when you put up a poster and it gets layered with all this other random stuff and a year later you just have some crazy composition going on. You can't plan that in the studio.”

--Patrick McNeil

Bad Seeds2015Acrylic and Silkscreen on Canvas

paintings“The paintings are definitely from what we have learned and done on the street. You can't do all that shit without learning something from it. Working in the studio definitely creates its own thing but it just can't be as abstract as it is on the street. On the street you get that accidental collage type of things happening. Like when you put up a poster and it gets layered with all this other random stuff and a year later you just have some crazy composition going on. You can't plan that in the studio.”

--Patrick McNeil

Off on a Fast One2015Acrylic and Silkscreen on Canvas

Bret the Hitman, clever nod to OBEYLady Aiko

QUOTES

• http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?Itemid=92&id=634&option=com_content

• http://thegreatdiscontent.com/interview/faile • “Our work is about narratives, telling stories, and

searching for meaning through modern mythology and archetypes—it’s almost like sifting for gold.”

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Savage

• Adjective: Fierce, violent, and uncontrollable. Aggressive and hostile, wild looking, and uncivilized.

• Synonyms: Ferocious, brutal, primitive, fierce, wild, etc.

Sacred

• Adjective: Connected with a god or gods. Dedicated to a religious purpose and deserving admiration and respect.

• Synonyms: Holy, spiritual, blessed, sanctified, venerated, devotion.

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Let’s do some coloring.