The Embarrassment Show
“Embarrassment is important. If you’re not willing to humiliate yourself, make mistakes and downright fuck-up, you should consider working in a cubicle farm. It’s safer there. Because as a creative, you’ll be called an idiot at least once a day. That’s okay. Making mistakes and risking embarrassment, even failure, is how you progress. Without it, you’ll be stuck in the same old safe zone: not embarrassed, but not better either. In other words: boring. So if we want to do this thing we love, make stuff, we have to get over our need not to look stupid.”
The Embarrassment Show started as a workshop by Erik Kessels for 2nd year Écal students, which developed into a travelling exhibition.
It stretches the abilities of the students to the limit. By embarrassing themselves they are able to tell a personal, often embarrassing and risky story. They went into a subject area of photography they normally didn’t dare to touch.
