James Taylor-Foster
Selected writing 2015 – 2020
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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2015 – 2020
  • Körper

“The Visual Fictions offer glimpses of the future of the practice — complex, multilayered, polyphonic, and ambitious. The narrators of these fictions come from all realms of art, architecture and design, diverse geographies and origins, and their work manifests desires for the future of the practice.” — Foreign Legion

Fig 1. Performance by Vivien Tauchmann (Klemens Renner)

KÖRPER

Von globalen Strukturen bis hin zur Größe eines Objekts — Kultur ist zusammengesetzt aus Runzeln in der Gesellschaft. Entsorge das Bügeleisen und akzeptiere die Falte. Zerknitter und zerknülle und falte und kräusele. Vereinige und spekuliere. Cruise auf den abgestuften Abgasen der Geschichte, aber vermeide es, ihre Ladung aufzunehmen. Folge gelegentlich anstatt immer nur anzuführen. Reduziere dein Ego anstatt Arroganz zu verbergen. Gehe ausnahmslos von einem Punkt der Verletzbarkeit aus, denn Biegsamkeit ist eine Stärke.

BODY

From global structures to the scale of an object, culture is made up by wrinkles in society. Dispose of the steamer, and embrace the crease. Crumple and rumple and fold and gather. Unite and speculate. Cruise on the gradated fumes of history, but avoid consuming its charge. Occasionally follow rather than always lead; deplete ego rather than veil conceit. Unfailingly depart from a point of vulnerability – for pliancy is a strength.

Fig 2. Schloss Pillnitz – Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden (Klemens Renner)
Fig 3. Performance by Vivien Tauchmann at Schloss Pillnitz (Klemens Renner)
Visual Fictions: Associates Associates (Ania Jaworska & Zack Ostrowski), Shumi Bose, Sara de Campos, Fictional Journal (Gabriela Baka, Sophie Rzepecky, Teresa Palmieri), Anne Dessing & Michiel van Iersel, Marie Herwald Hermann & Anders Ruhwald, Zoë Ritts & Océane Réveillac, Galerie Stephanie Kelly (Kerstin Flasche, Claudia Kleiner, Michael Klipphahn, Lucie Klysch, Paula Letalik, Theresa Rothe, Nina Schwarzenberger, Winnie Seifert), Kosmos Architects (Leonid Slominsky, Artem Kitaev, Nikolay Martynov), Oliver Klimpel, Alexandra Midal & Emma Pflieger, Kamau Patton, Martha Poggioli, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis & Naho Kubota, OOIEE (Mary Begley, Matt Olson, Drew Smith), James Taylor-Foster.
Add to the Cake: Transforming the roles of female practitioners at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden is a curatorial initiative by Foreign Legion (Vera Sacchetti and Matylda Krzykowski).

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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
  • CuratorialI.
  • ProjectsII.
  • PublicationsIII.
  • SpeakingIV.
  • WritingV.
I.Curatorial
  • WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD2020
  • Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron2019
  • Cruising Pavilion2019
  • The Craft of Swedish Videogame Design2019
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Freestanding2018
  • Space Popular: Value in the Virtual2018
  • Boxen at ArkDes2018
  • You Are Not Alone2017
  • In Therapy2016
  • Keeping Up Appearances2015
II.Projects
  • Plug-in Poesi2020
  • Pillow Talks2020
  • 〰️ Interdependence, a portrait of Stockholm2020
  • exhibiting architecture, exhibition models2020
  • Future Architecture Rooms2020
  • SOFT GOSSIP2020
  • alvedon series2020
  • asmrology2020
  • Mukbang Veneziano2020
  • Körper2019
  • Architecture on Display2018
  • Planetary Protocols2018
  • The Stones of Venice: A Kimono2017
  • Misunderstandings (A Reliquary)2016
III.Publications
  • Living on Water2017
  • Faith2016
  • Elemental Living2016
  • Abundance2016
  • Clairvoyance2015
  • People, Place, Purpose2015
  • Defiance2015
IV.Speaking
  • Future Architecture CEx2020 Focus Talks2020
  • ASMR at ArkDes: a Virtual Vernissage2020
  • Modevisningar är den flyktigaste formen av arkitektur2018
  • Attention, Accelerated2017
  • Exhibition Models2017
  • Conversation with Kenneth Frampton2017
  • Interview: “Profil” (RTV4 Slovenia)2017
V.Writing
  • What’s Mine Is Theirs: an interview with Max Lamb2020
  • No Time to Stand and Stare2020
  • 〰️ Screen Glow Sedation2020
  • 〰️ Don’t Fear a Snowflake2020
  • Making Believe with Charlap Hyman & Herrero2019
  • Foreword: On the Manifesto2019
  • On Practical Futurology2019
  • 〰️ To Speak As If In Capital Letters2019
  • In Riga, A Conference On Architecture and Migration2019
  • Baltoscandia: A Complex Utopia2018
  • On the Cruising Pavilion2018
  • 〰️ A Weak Monument2018
  • A Diary of Virgil Abloh’s First Louis Vuitton Show2018
  • 〰️ The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.2018
  • 〰️ Virgil Abloh, Editor in Brief2018
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Villa Edstrand2018
  • 〰️ On Liquid Modernity2017
  • 〰️ #003399, #FFCC00; The Meaning of a Flag2017
  • Pillars of Society: “Jantelagen”2017
  • Exhibiting the Postmodern2017
  • Future Architecture and the Idea of Europe2017
  • Domains of Influence2017
  • Concrete Mountain2017
  • Ingress: Black Rock City2017
  • In Dialogue With Gravity2017
  • Rem, Redacted2016
  • Media States, Or The State of Media2016
  • A Piece of England to Call One’s Own2016
  • Upon This Rock (I Will Build My Church)2016
  • The Design of the Species2016
  • Venice Isn’t Sinking, It’s Flooding2016
James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2015 – 2020
Projects
  • Körper 2019
  • for Visual Fictions ('Add to the Cake: Transforming the Roles of Female Practitioners') — Foreign Legion at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden
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“The Visual Fictions offer glimpses of the future of the practice — complex, multilayered, polyphonic, and ambitious. The narrators of these fictions come from all realms of art, architecture and design, diverse geographies and origins, and their work manifests desires for the future of the practice.” — Foreign Legion

Fig 1. Performance by Vivien Tauchmann (Klemens Renner)

KÖRPER

Von globalen Strukturen bis hin zur Größe eines Objekts — Kultur ist zusammengesetzt aus Runzeln in der Gesellschaft. Entsorge das Bügeleisen und akzeptiere die Falte. Zerknitter und zerknülle und falte und kräusele. Vereinige und spekuliere. Cruise auf den abgestuften Abgasen der Geschichte, aber vermeide es, ihre Ladung aufzunehmen. Folge gelegentlich anstatt immer nur anzuführen. Reduziere dein Ego anstatt Arroganz zu verbergen. Gehe ausnahmslos von einem Punkt der Verletzbarkeit aus, denn Biegsamkeit ist eine Stärke.

BODY

From global structures to the scale of an object, culture is made up by wrinkles in society. Dispose of the steamer, and embrace the crease. Crumple and rumple and fold and gather. Unite and speculate. Cruise on the gradated fumes of history, but avoid consuming its charge. Occasionally follow rather than always lead; deplete ego rather than veil conceit. Unfailingly depart from a point of vulnerability – for pliancy is a strength.

Fig 2. Schloss Pillnitz – Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden (Klemens Renner)
Fig 3. Performance by Vivien Tauchmann at Schloss Pillnitz (Klemens Renner)
Visual Fictions: Associates Associates (Ania Jaworska & Zack Ostrowski), Shumi Bose, Sara de Campos, Fictional Journal (Gabriela Baka, Sophie Rzepecky, Teresa Palmieri), Anne Dessing & Michiel van Iersel, Marie Herwald Hermann & Anders Ruhwald, Zoë Ritts & Océane Réveillac, Galerie Stephanie Kelly (Kerstin Flasche, Claudia Kleiner, Michael Klipphahn, Lucie Klysch, Paula Letalik, Theresa Rothe, Nina Schwarzenberger, Winnie Seifert), Kosmos Architects (Leonid Slominsky, Artem Kitaev, Nikolay Martynov), Oliver Klimpel, Alexandra Midal & Emma Pflieger, Kamau Patton, Martha Poggioli, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis & Naho Kubota, OOIEE (Mary Begley, Matt Olson, Drew Smith), James Taylor-Foster.
Add to the Cake: Transforming the roles of female practitioners at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden is a curatorial initiative by Foreign Legion (Vera Sacchetti and Matylda Krzykowski).
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