Tag: Open Call: Visibility, and the Unseen

Protected: Unseen Bodies

Protected: Unseen Bodies

Christine Bjerke

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The ‘Typewriter’ Drawing

The ‘Typewriter’ Drawing

Valeriia Chemerisova

The ‘Typewriter’ drawing is made on brown paper mounted on a black backing, its surface carrying both the mechanical impressions of a typewriter and the analogue traces of a black pen layered above them. But unlike later typewriter drawings, which use typed characters as grids, codes, or proto-digital marks, this… Read More

Protected: Mapping Water

Protected: Mapping Water

Anna Biza

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Protected: The Creative Potential of Archival Boundaries

Protected: The Creative Potential of Archival Boundaries

John Walter

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Protected: Drawing Motion as Thought

Protected: Drawing Motion as Thought

MRND

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The Architectural Competition: Shopfront to ‘The Trade’

The Architectural Competition: Shopfront to ‘The Trade’

Harry Foley

Alexander Scott Carter’s winning designs for single and double-fronted W.H. Smith shopfronts form a remote bookend to a troubled time for architectural competitions in Britain. The other arrived approximately 75 years earlier in the form of a satirical drawing produced to open Augustus Pugin’s Contrasts (1836). It too was a… 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

And in the shadows, the section fades

And in the shadows, the section fades

Charlotte Erckrath

On the black cartridge, a veil of pigments builds up, articulates an edge and fades into the depth. And yet it is the edge that meets me first, together with all the other edges that are layered upon each other. Cascading contrasts of white and black. Or: of brightness and darkness. Now… Read More