During November 2017, we exhibited a display of our variable process of A Formidable Mishap at Riksarkivet in Gothenburg. A postcard from a travel or a closure and presentation of an artistic development project. A Formidable Mishap is an exploratory project where we have put ourselves in a state of mental and geographic disorientation, collaborating with mistake and minor disasters. We have done so with the purpose to learn more about how this can serve as a positive catalyst in an artistic process. This project contains of two main tracks. One part is the development of methods, instructions and workshops. These workshops have been a catalyst for our own practice, but also a pedagogical tool in our professional role as teachers. The other part is the physical result of our exploration of material, production and techniques. Sometimes the object is a result of a method. Sometimes the method is a result of the working process when making the objects. The project has implied an improvisational process where one thing leads to something else, informing a continuation. With little focus on an outcome, we wanted to open up for the material to direct our movement. We introduced clay into our process, a new material to both of us. Learning from how it stretches, instructs and resists. Noticing how we in frustration controlled and made the material smooth and straight. But also starting to accept suggestions, directions and mishaps. Allowing for the work itself to become inspiring Central for the project and the process has been the collaboration itself. Providing us with ingredients to combine in a new way. And serving us with layers that leave our control. Below are instructions formulated in the beginning of the project. They have worked to inspire our work and also driven the work forward. — Reflect for a moment upon the relationship between the non-visible and what we call our doing. Links between the discarded / rejected and the expectation. A successful coincidence. All; parts of an artistic process. Why, what, when and how. A process to understand and to create understanding. A composition of thoughts. — Pick a detail, then blow it up like an exaggeration. Let uncertainty and disorder swallow and mislead you. — Now let’s think of the compost: returned, decayed and used again. See the possibilities with what is at hand, the unexpected and found. An act of collect, compare and then fuse together. And in the middle a series of our joint formations. A Formidable Mishap has been a project with an unclear process with a somewhat hazy goal. We have at several occasions been wandering in circles, not knowing in what direction to continue walking. This has also been the purpose and we have learned a lot from this and gained more understanding about processes and collaboration that will be valuable in future work. Explorative projects with loose frames and purpose are something that we seldom have time and possibility to engage in in our everyday work and even though it might be frustrating at times it has also put us in a context and a mood where we have enjoyed to be. The collaboration has contributed with a structure to keep a discussion around pedagogy going between us. It has been a way to collect tryouts and see individual events in a larger context. The structure that constitutes most of the everyday work at Hdk has benefitted a lot from a more open explorative parallel process. This project has influenced both our professional practices and our roles as teachers in a very fruitful way and it is now a platform and a foundation that we will use, for new projects, discussions, lectures and workshops.