James Taylor-Foster
Selected writing 2015 – 2023
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  • ✶ Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket
  • 2022
James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2015 – 2023
  • ✶ Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket

During the summer of 2022, Bakgården at ArkDes becomes a secluded backdrop to a diverse summer programme. Stockholm-based designers Mira Bergh and Josefin Zachrisson (part of the collective Swedish Girls) design a public space with private intentions.

If the public space of the city appeals to a broad and normative public, such neutrality often works to expand some parts of the public realm while restricting others. Through the lenses of pleasure and the emotional relationships we forge with the spaces we share, Bergh and Zachrisson’s secluded pleasure garden for Utomhusverket 2022 challenges tendencies to ‘neutral’ public space. Their work makes room for visibility and invisibility, trysts, assignation, and play.


Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 1. Installation view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 2. Detail view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 3. Installation view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 4. Installation view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 5. Installation view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Utomhusverket

Utomhusverket is ArkDes’s annual summer outdoor installation. Each commission stitches the spaces of the museum to the streets of the city by way of a large-scale outdoor installation, creating a testing ground that makes room for architects and designers to imagine new possibilities for public life. Each iteration seeks to demonstrate the potential of inclusive and design-driven public space, enabling individual and collective action in the heart of the city.


Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 6. Portait of Mira Bergh and Josefin Zachrisson (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 7. Prototyping (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 8. Process work (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 9. Process work (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 10. Metal rods (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 11. Powdercoating (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 12. Process models (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 13. Process sketches (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 14. Process references (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Portrait of Mira Bergh, Josefin Zachrisson, James Taylor-Foster. Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 15. Portrait at Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND

In the performance for the inauguration of Utomhusverket 2022, edible artist Moa Marklund, stylist Amanda Hedman Hägerström, performing artist Leffe Crumlove, and sound composer Adele Kosman invited audience constructed a banquet of cake and invited audience members to take the step from temptation to feast.


GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 16. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 17. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 18. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 19. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 20. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 21. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 22. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 23. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.


I Promise You a Rose Garden

In the closing weeks of Utomhusverket 2022, I Promise You a Rose Garden was a site-specific performance in which fashion designer EllenX “exploited her fabrics and her friends to explore and expand on the “EXTRA” that is a part of EXTRAvagance”. The performance was produced by AsystemQ with Niki Awandee, Doreen Ndagire, Ayesha Quraishi, and DJ Cheza.


I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 24. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 25. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 26. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 27. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 28. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 29. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022)

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 30. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 31. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

https://vimeo.com/arkdes/rosegarden


Design Mira Bergh, Josefin Zachrisson Production Studio Hamilton & Serrander Installation Hangmen Graphic Identity Research and Development Installation Photography Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, Sima Korenivski
GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND, performed for the inauguration of Utomhusverket 2022 on June 3, 2022, was created by edible artist moa marklund, stylist amanda hedman hägerström, performing artist leffe crumlove, and sound composer adele kosman. I Promise You a Rose Garden, performed on August 30, 2022, was created by Ellen X and asystemq with niki awandee, doreen ndagire, ayesha quraishi, and dj cheza.
June 03 — September 11, 2022
extended until April 2023
Bakgården, ArkDes
April 17 — April 23, 2023
ALCOVA, Milan


Public Space with Private Intentions

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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
  • CuratorialI.
  • ProjectsII.
  • PublicationsIII.
  • SpeakingIV.
  • WritingV.
I.Curatorial
  • ✶ Joar Nango: Girjegumpi, Venice2023
  • ✶ WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD, London2022
  • ✶ Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket2022
  • ✶ The Limits of Our World: LARP and Design2022
  • Solicited: Proposals2021
  • Studio Ossidiana: Utomhusverket2021
  • WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD, Stockholm2020
  • Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron + Brunnsparken2019
  • Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex, Cruising Culture2019
  • The Craft of Swedish Videogame Design2019
  • Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson; Sigurd Lewerentz – Freestanding2018
  • Space Popular: Value in the Virtual2018
  • You Are Not Alone2017
  • In Therapy2016
  • Keeping Up Appearances2015
II.Projects
  • ASMR, An Exhibition Trailer2022
  • Watch & Chill 2.0: Streaming Senses2022
  • ASMRology2021
  • Plug-in Poesi2020
  • Interdependence: Stockholm and pandemia2020
  • Future Architecture Rooms2020
  • SOFT GOSSIP2020
  • Mukbang Veneziano2020
  • Körper2019
  • Architecture on Display2018
  • Boxen at ArkDes2018
  • The Stones of Venice: A Kimono2017
  • Misunderstandings (A Reliquary)2016
III.Publications
  • ✶ softspot2021
  • Living on Water2017
  • Elemental Living2016
  • People, Place, Purpose2015
IV.Speaking
  • ✶ Scaffold #612022
  • Salons, The New Architecture School2022
  • Protagonist of the Erotic: A Bed2022
  • OAT Academy, Curating Architecture2022
  • ✶ Protagonist of the Erotic: An Island2021
  • A Future for Exhibitions2021
  • Future Architecture CEx2020 Focus Talks2020
  • Modevisningar är den flyktigaste formen av arkitektur2018
  • Exhibition Models2017
V.Writing
  • Wang & Söderström: Royal Chambers2023
  • Lisa Tan: Dodge and/or Burn2023
  • Luki Essender: Of Yous2023
  • Studio Ossidiana on the Sentimental Scale of the City2022
  • A Strange Sort of Weight2021
  • What’s Mine Is Theirs: an interview with Max Lamb2020
  • ✶ Screen Glow Sedation2020
  • No Time to Stand and Stare2020
  • On Norra Tornen2020
  • ✶ Don’t Fear a Snowflake2020
  • In Riga, A Conference On Architecture and Migration2019
  • On Practical Futurology2019
  • Foreword: On the Manifesto2019
  • Making Believe with Charlap Hyman & Herrero2019
  • ✶ To Speak As If In Capital Letters2019
  • Baltoscandia: A Complex Utopia2018
  • ✶ Virgil Abloh, Editor in Brief2018
  • A Weak Monument2018
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Villa Edstrand2018
  • On the Cruising Pavilion2018
  • A Diary of Virgil Abloh’s First Louis Vuitton Show2018
  • ✶ The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.2018
  • Concrete Mountain2017
  • ✶ 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
  • 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 – 2023
Curatorial
  • ✶ Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022
  • with Mira Bergh, Josefin Zachrisson at ArkDes
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During the summer of 2022, Bakgården at ArkDes becomes a secluded backdrop to a diverse summer programme. Stockholm-based designers Mira Bergh and Josefin Zachrisson (part of the collective Swedish Girls) design a public space with private intentions.

If the public space of the city appeals to a broad and normative public, such neutrality often works to expand some parts of the public realm while restricting others. Through the lenses of pleasure and the emotional relationships we forge with the spaces we share, Bergh and Zachrisson’s secluded pleasure garden for Utomhusverket 2022 challenges tendencies to ‘neutral’ public space. Their work makes room for visibility and invisibility, trysts, assignation, and play.


Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 1. Installation view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 2. Detail view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 3. Installation view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 4. Installation view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 5. Installation view of Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Utomhusverket

Utomhusverket is ArkDes’s annual summer outdoor installation. Each commission stitches the spaces of the museum to the streets of the city by way of a large-scale outdoor installation, creating a testing ground that makes room for architects and designers to imagine new possibilities for public life. Each iteration seeks to demonstrate the potential of inclusive and design-driven public space, enabling individual and collective action in the heart of the city.


Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 6. Portait of Mira Bergh and Josefin Zachrisson (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 7. Prototyping (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 8. Process work (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 9. Process work (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 10. Metal rods (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 11. Powdercoating (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 12. Process models (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 13. Process sketches (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 14. Process references (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

Portrait of Mira Bergh, Josefin Zachrisson, James Taylor-Foster. Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 15. Portrait at Utomhusverket 2022 (Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND

In the performance for the inauguration of Utomhusverket 2022, edible artist Moa Marklund, stylist Amanda Hedman Hägerström, performing artist Leffe Crumlove, and sound composer Adele Kosman invited audience constructed a banquet of cake and invited audience members to take the step from temptation to feast.


GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 16. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 17. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 18. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 19. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 20. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 21. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 22. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 23. GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND at the opening of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.


I Promise You a Rose Garden

In the closing weeks of Utomhusverket 2022, I Promise You a Rose Garden was a site-specific performance in which fashion designer EllenX “exploited her fabrics and her friends to explore and expand on the “EXTRA” that is a part of EXTRAvagance”. The performance was produced by AsystemQ with Niki Awandee, Doreen Ndagire, Ayesha Quraishi, and DJ Cheza.


I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 24. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 25. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 26. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 27. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 28. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 29. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022)

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 30. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.
Fig 31. I Promise You a Rose Garden at the closing of Utomhusverket 2022 (Sima Korenivski, 2022). Courtesy of ArkDes.

https://vimeo.com/arkdes/rosegarden


Design Mira Bergh, Josefin Zachrisson Production Studio Hamilton & Serrander Installation Hangmen Graphic Identity Research and Development Installation Photography Isak Berglund Mattsson-Mårn, Sima Korenivski
GRACE / GRAZE / GRAZING LAND, performed for the inauguration of Utomhusverket 2022 on June 3, 2022, was created by edible artist moa marklund, stylist amanda hedman hägerström, performing artist leffe crumlove, and sound composer adele kosman. I Promise You a Rose Garden, performed on August 30, 2022, was created by Ellen X and asystemq with niki awandee, doreen ndagire, ayesha quraishi, and dj cheza.
June 03 — September 11, 2022
extended until April 2023
Bakgården, ArkDes
April 17 — April 23, 2023
ALCOVA, Milan


Public Space with Private Intentions

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