Ian Whittlesea – The Egyptian Postures

Ian Whittlesea – The Egyptian PosturesThe Egyptian Postures is a guide to the most advanced Mazdaznan exercises that Johannes Itten taught his students at the Bauhaus. Often performed while singing or humming the postures were intended to activate glands and re channel internal energies, stirring the blood in ways that contributed to the perpetual evolution of humanity. They were also said to induce auto illumination, the participants body generating an intense light from within. This

he describes his visits home as times of contrast — “a fondness and nostalgia for home meeting intense boredom and a preoccupation with the fallacy of the Floridian promise of ‘paradise

combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies

"A study of charred gorse on paper

expression and transcendence

John Latham’s One Second Drawings

deep in the lush canopies and vegetation of the rainforest

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there are no folios to unfurl

Free Time is an ode to self-expression

Edition Taube

Taking inspiration from Mirza Waheed’s novel The Collaborator

This open archive constitutes a subjective sum of the history of this singular Ballet