_{How to Riotously Flop While Trying to Save the World - a Manifesto for Ecological Artistic Failure.
LennonTaylor 2025
2mx 3m digital print}

FEATURING - How to Riotously Flop While Trying to Save the World - a Manifesto for Ecological Artistic Failure

The Manifesto for Ecological Artistic Failure is both our guide and our ongoing experiment: an evolving framework that liberates us from the burden of perfection and propels us into the messy, generative space of failure. In the tradition of creative manifestos throughout art history,  from the Futurists to the Fluxus movement, we understand the manifesto as an artwork in itself.
Our art practice embraces the manifesto as a method of collective imagination. It is a way to hold ourselves accountable to values that resist the dominant narratives of ownership, permanence, and mastery.  
LennonTaylor insists on the manifesto as praxis: as something that disrupts not only what we make, but how we make it, and how we unmake it.
To make art under collapse is not to offer solutions, but to hold space. The Manifesto for Ecological Artistic Failure is our invitation to let art rot, and from that rot, to imagine the unpredictable and extraordinary possibilities of failure.
LennonTaylor 2025


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Marilyn Lennon is an artist and lecturer. Marilyn's art practice is situational, process-based, durational and collaborative. The work invites us to engage with complex ecologies of place, grounded in slow encounters, participatory governance, and new imaginaries for ecology. The creative outcomes are often co-produced actions, images, objects, situations, and sites of exchange.  She has an MA from the National College of Art and Design. Her doctoral research at the Interaction Design Centre (University of Limerick) with Prof Liam L. Bannon, examined the contribution artists and designers make in interdisciplinary co-design projects (2007). More recently, in 2021 she completed the ‘Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art’ CPD programme at the University of Gothenburg.
Website: www.marilynlennon.net
Instagram: marilynlennon.art

Sean Taylor is a socially engaged artist and educator with considerable international and national experience.
Sean’s social art practice explores concepts of annual and natural cycles in nature and time. The core artistic research methodologies he employs have a strong connection to space, place, ecology and the urgent need for social action.
He holds a PhD exploring Acouscenic Listening and the Creative Soundwalk and its links to the social and creative reimaging of place.
Examples of his work at available at:
www.seantaylor.ie
www.softday.ie
www.cmc.ie/composers 
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