Tag: and the Unseen

OPEN-GROUND 

OPEN-GROUND 

Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting

Architecture often treats the surface of the Earth as a liminal plane to break and excavate, cut and fill, and ultimately smooth into a neutral line. Even one of architecture’s most geological of drawing types, the worm’s-eye, typically eradicates any vestiges of earthly matters, reducing the underworld to an empty… Read More

The Unperformed: Eisenstein’s Set Design for Heartbreak House

The Unperformed: Eisenstein’s Set Design for Heartbreak House

Max Livesey

The sole drawing by Sergei Eisenstein in the Drawing Matter archive is a set design for a production of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House (1919) from 1922. It is a rare, interdisciplinary confluence of a socialist Irish playwright (Shaw), a Russian filmmaker and theorist (Eisenstein), and a radical theatre maker… Read More