About this episode

Nathalie Nahai speaks with James Taylor-Foster about the intersection of creativity, art, and cultural leadership.

Today, I’m speaking with James Taylor-Foster - a curator, writer, and cultural leader investigating how the creativity of artists, designers, and thinkers reimagines our world – shaping popular culture and public life. Recently appointed Executive Director of Para Site , Hong Kong’s leading non-profit contemporary art centre, James's practice bridges contemporary art, design, architecture, and digital culture. As a convenor and curator he blurs disciplinary boundaries, exploring unconventional ways of nurturing institutions and their audiences. This expansive approach is both greenhouse and staging ground: cultivating emergent ideas for wider cultural spheres while building ambitious platforms for assembling many forms of making into new ways of seeing, feeling, and imagining. James’ work shines light on how creativity continually re-envisions reality, and it was in a talk he gave at the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute earlier this year, that I heard him speak about “world-glimsping” – a phrase he coined to describe the curious, evocative and transporting ways in which artists of all stripes can invite us into alternative experiences that both broaden and deepen our felt sense of…

People in this episode

Host: Nathalie Nahai

Guest: James Taylor-Foster

Topics covered

• creativity
• art
• cultural leadership
• public life
• imagination
• social impact

Keywords

• creativity
• art
• cultural leadership
• world-glimpsing
• imagination
• public life
• design
• architecture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Para Site, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute

Places: Hong Kong

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