Writer: Gordon Shrigley
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work
9 June 2021
Insignificance 3: Mourning Work9 June 2021
All drawings contain traces of all previously drawn mediations. [1] All drawings are silent acts of memorialising (by employing inter-subjective readings of iconography, lineage, parody, reverie and reflexivity) what has been drawn before, or thought to have been so, or simply, what has been, consciously misplaced. [2] The text above… Read More
Insignificance 2: Distinction – Polysemy
19 May 2021
Insignificance 2: Distinction – Polysemy19 May 2021
The following texts are excerpted from Gordon Shrigley, Insignificance: A short discourse on the physical and ideational economy of line within architectural representation (Solitude Editions, 1998). Now, twenty years after Insignificance was first published, Gordon Shrigley has revisited the publication for a series of postings on Drawing Matter. Each of these posts connect… Read More
Insignificance 1: Discipline
4 May 2021
Insignificance 1: Discipline4 May 2021
The space of the architectural imagination resides within the discourses of line. This space defines the boundaries of a practice of conceptualising the laws of the place [1] whereby through an array of ordinances, the architectural line constitutes ‘the objects which it pretends only to describe realistically and to analyse… Read More
Insignificance 4: Self-reflexive
26 July 2021
Insignificance 4: Self-reflexive26 July 2021
By Gordon Shrigley
Whoever decides to study the conditions of a practice of imagining architecture through/as line will, I am afraid, be left in despair. Once the theatrical mask of line’s incontrovertible instrumentality is seen to slip, line’s solidity, its all too evident honesty as a simple mimetic tool, turns up by and… Read More
insignificance (editorial series)