The labyrinth, designed by Daedalus to house the Minotaur is among the earliest expressions of architecture. It represents a type, space designated by walls, as well as an organizational system. You can see a labyrinth on the floor of the Castle St Angelo in Rome, and find versions etched into Celtic stones in Ireland.
This text is not to present a history of the object, for which there are many books already written. You can read about the labyrinth in the writings of Charlotte Higgins, Jorge Luis Borges, Aldo Rossi, Manfredo Tafuri, or many others; this page is to explain the setup of the site.
A labyrinth is experienced differently when one is inside it, as opposed to reading or viewing a layout. In the latter, a two dimensional layout, the observer can be taken to a different vantage point, and the illusion becomes decipherable. In two dimensions, one can identify the components of the goal (core), the maze, and the entry/exit. The image of the maze itself becomes is a projection of time, annotating distance and complexity that exists between two clear ends, the entry/exit, and the goal (which is sometimes doubling as the exit).
This office believes that those two points are the least interesting. It is the interstitial, the space between points that it the greatest interest, and this has driven the sorting of the site.
There is no stable, long term ‘home page’. There are a few anchors, on the left, but the remainder of the pages are jumbled up into each other. Sharing tags, sharing links, but maybe not going anywhere. Our era is one of ‘fake news’, where public figure consistently state that reporting that is deemed ‘disagreeable’ is also ‘false’. To this end, the GO site publishes items where the dates are not entirely consistent. Posts come long before or long after the objects are formally created, chronologies, like time in a labyrinth, are bent. This is not to lie so much as affirm the ambiguity of the labyrinth; to combine the two ends (start and finish) into a singularity, and drop the visitor into loops. The references reference This site is not cleanly organized.
This site does not sell to advertisers. It does not answer your questions. Maybe it draws you for a moment. Takes you away from the current narrative. The buzz of instant feedback and clicks. This site is not sharable consumption, and perhaps lacks the preponderance of click-bait induced scenography; but those are not the goals. The goal is to wander through territory. To explore the land and get lost in the three dimensional solitude.
The page is a deliberately analog experience, within the world of digital media.
Take time to lose time, and get lost.
Original:Nordisk familjebokVector:Sebastián Asegurado [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
