‘Documenting Failure’ takes its name from a quote from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, that clearly outlines that a success rooted in Disability Justice often looks like mainstream failure. It invites artists from across the UK and beyond to reframe such failures on their own terms, and in so doing move towards new models of success, access and sustainability.

Series one guests include Madilta Feyiṣayọ Ibini; Jess Thom (Tourettes Hero); James Leadbitter (The Vacuum Cleaner); Amhara Spence (Hood Futures Studio); Christopher Samuel; Chiara Bersani; Maria Palacios (Sins Invalid); Alexandrina Hemsley (Yewande 103); Ray Young and Bobby Baker.

Find the full show notes for the series here.

The roots from which Documenting Failure grew from were laid down in 2025, when the Selina Thompson Ltd team were part of Culture Central's Radical Listening Week. Exploring key themes from the Charter for Equity research by Dr. Lucy Lopez, we hosted a lunchtime podcast on Equity & Intersectionality - talking about the layered realities of identity, failure, and the learnings our disability frameworks and experiments in ‘different’ can teach us. This initial conversation became the pilot for Documenting Failure.