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title: "Improvisation and failure as creative motivation"
date: 2024-04-22
last_modified: 2024-11-16T12:50:23+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-17T01:30:51Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/improvisation-and-failure-as-creative-motivation-context-en/"
description: "John Cage’s “Untitled Event” (1952) is felt to mark the birth of performance art, but there is only anecdotal evidence as to what it actually featured. In our DOUBLE FEATURE, with the help of school students Johanna Billing re-imagines the event – and exploits the uncertainties in order to counter the professionalization of the school sector."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Header_Schirn_Presse_Double_Feature_Johanna_Billing_April_2024_01.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# Improvisation and failure as creative motivation