James Taylor-Foster
Selected writing 2015 – 2022
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  • 2020
James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2015 – 2022
  • SOFT GOSSIP

SOFT GOSSIP comprises two immersive sound performances created and led by the programmer and artist Claire Tolan, first held live in the exhibition WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD at ArkDes in Stockholm.

Fig 1. Claire Tolan in the oculus of Boxen at ArkDes during Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


The two performances Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus (featuring a whisper choir) and One Tongue in the Morning: Meditation (a solo performance) both explore themes of hospitality, riddles and gossip, as well as the discipline, intimacy, and close-contact of close-listening.



Fig 2. Participants of Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


Fig 3. Claire Tolan in the oculus of Boxen at ArkDes during Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


“Lifting the sounds of ASMR out from the screen and into public space, the performances invite you to participate in an ineffable, effable, effanineffable conspiracy of togetherness.”

Claire Tolan


Fig 4. Claire Tolan and the whisper choir on the ramp of Boxen at ArkDes during Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


Fig 5. Participants of Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


Claire Tolan

Claire Tolan is an American artist and programmer living in Berlin. Since 2013, much of her work has emerged from the sounds of ASMR. Between 2014 and 2019, Tolan hosted You’re Worth It, the ASMR show on Berlin Community Radio. She has collaborated on recording and performance projects with artists such as Holly Herndon, Inger Wold Lund, Hanne Lippard, Camilla Steinum, and Susan Ploetz. Alongside Holly Herndon, Tolan is a participant of the exhibition WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD with the audio work Lonely at the Top from the album Platform (2015).



Fig 6. The descent of Tolan and the whisper choir at the close of Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


SOFT GOSSIP by Claire Tolan was commissioned and presented as part of the exhibition WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD at ArkDes.

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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 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
  • Studio Ossidiana on the Sentimental Scale of the City2022
  • Wang & Söderström: Royal Chambers2022
  • 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 – 2022
Projects
  • SOFT GOSSIP 2020
  • by Claire Tolan at ArkDes
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SOFT GOSSIP comprises two immersive sound performances created and led by the programmer and artist Claire Tolan, first held live in the exhibition WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD at ArkDes in Stockholm.

Fig 1. Claire Tolan in the oculus of Boxen at ArkDes during Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


The two performances Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus (featuring a whisper choir) and One Tongue in the Morning: Meditation (a solo performance) both explore themes of hospitality, riddles and gossip, as well as the discipline, intimacy, and close-contact of close-listening.



Fig 2. Participants of Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


Fig 3. Claire Tolan in the oculus of Boxen at ArkDes during Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


“Lifting the sounds of ASMR out from the screen and into public space, the performances invite you to participate in an ineffable, effable, effanineffable conspiracy of togetherness.”

Claire Tolan


Fig 4. Claire Tolan and the whisper choir on the ramp of Boxen at ArkDes during Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


Fig 5. Participants of Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


Claire Tolan

Claire Tolan is an American artist and programmer living in Berlin. Since 2013, much of her work has emerged from the sounds of ASMR. Between 2014 and 2019, Tolan hosted You’re Worth It, the ASMR show on Berlin Community Radio. She has collaborated on recording and performance projects with artists such as Holly Herndon, Inger Wold Lund, Hanne Lippard, Camilla Steinum, and Susan Ploetz. Alongside Holly Herndon, Tolan is a participant of the exhibition WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD with the audio work Lonely at the Top from the album Platform (2015).



Fig 6. The descent of Tolan and the whisper choir at the close of Many Tongues in the Evening: Chorus from SOFT GOSSIP (Klaudia Rychlik, 2020)


SOFT GOSSIP by Claire Tolan was commissioned and presented as part of the exhibition WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD at ArkDes.
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