Ian Whittlesea – Trataka

 

Ian Whittlesea – Trataka

Trataka is a yogic practice of concentration honed through staring at the center of a candle flame. It is said to still the mind, stimulate the pineal gland, open the third eye and promote the psychic abilities.

This book may be used as an aid to daily meditation, a flic book for the impatient or as a memento mori.

Text, images, design and production by Ian Whittlesea, published in 2020 by Arnaud Desjardin's The Everyday Press, printed by The Westdale Press and distributed by Antenne Books.

Softcover, 22 x 15 cm, isbn 978-1-912458-10-3

http://www.ianwhittlesea.net/works_pages/wks_trataka/wks_trataka.html

http://theeverydaypress.net/trataka/

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Ian Whittlesea – On Colour...

Ian Whittlesea
On Colour...

A book by Ian Whittlesea published by The Everyday Press, London, Fall 2019

On Colour... draws on the theories of colour harmony that Johannes Itten taught at the Bauhaus, and on the literature of Mazdaznan, Rosicrucianism and Theosophy. It describes how one can, potentially, produce the white cloud of invisibility and documents the author's own attempts to manifest the cloud.

These manifestations have a complex group of antecedents that include Lawrence Weiner's early spray-painted works, John Latham's One Second Drawings, Robert Irwin's luminous disc paintings of the 1960s and representations of the ineffable made by spiritualists and occultists.

Text, images, design and production by Ian Whittlesea, published by Arnaud Desjardin / The Everyday Press, printed by Aldgate Press, distributed in Europe by Antenne Books and in North America by Artbook / D.A.P.

ISBN 978-1-912458-08-0

https://www.ianwhittlesea.net/exhibitions_pages/ex_oncolour/ex_oncolour.html

https://theeverydaypress.net/

https://www.antennebooks.com/product/on-colour/

Ian Whittlesea: Some books and light to read them by / PrintRoom Rotterdam

Ian Whittlesea: Some books and light to read them by
books and installation by Ian Whittlesea
13 January – 13 February 2018

PrintRoom
Schietbaan 17
NL – 3014 ZV Rotterdam

Friday 12 January 2018 – 7-10 pm opening and conversation with Eline Verstegen

http://www.printroom.org/
http://www.ianwhittlesea.net/exhibitions_pages/ex_PrintRoom/ex_PrintRoom.html

Ian Whittlesea & Pádraic E. Moore, The Egyptian Postures – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Ian Whittlesea and Pádraic E. Moore will discuss the Egyptian Postures with Margriet Schavemaker at 8pm/20:00 hours on Friday 29 September 2017 at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, on the occasion of Press! Print! Publish!
Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10
1071 DJ Amsterdam
info
http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/calendar/events/stedelijk-book-club-print-press-publish-2017
http://www.ianwhittlesea.net/works_pages/wks_egyptian/wks_egyptian.html

Ian Whittlesea – Becoming Invisible, Artnight London 1 July 2017

Ian Whittlesea 
Becoming Invisible (2017)

Art Night 
London, 1 July 2017

Site-specific adaptation of an ongoing project
Immersive light and sound installation
Entrance at the signposted meeting point on the south-east side
Tower Bridge Road, London SE1 2UP

6pm–2am, every 40 minutes
Duration: 35 Minutes
Language: English
Ian Whittlesea invites the audience to take part in an illuminated meditation in the Bascule Chamber, located inside Tower Bridge. His ongoing work Becoming Invisible is adapted to the rarely accessed cavernous space. This experiential and performative audio installation is accompanied by a light show ranging from total darkness to the most intense light imaginable. The audience, in groups of 50, is guided down into the chamber by the voice of hypnotherapist Ruth Sabrosa, alongside the sound of rhythmic breathing and visualisation cues. Once in the Chamber the participants are asked to reflect on the colour spectrum and finally to step into a white cloud, perhaps allowing them to become permanently invisible.
A project supported by Art Night’s Patron Circle 2017, kindly hosted by Tower Bridge.
this Event is sold out

http://www.artnight.london/#ian-whittlesea
http://www.ianwhittlesea.net/exhibitions_pages/ex_artnight/ex_artnight.html

Ian Whittlesea – Offprint, Tate Modern, Londen

Ian Whittlesea
Book signing of copies of The Egyptian Postures at The Everyday Press table, and the book Becoming Invisible is being read as part of the Endless Book Club presented by Self Publish, Be Happy.
on Saturday 20 May 2017
Offprint, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London

Ian Whittlesea – The Egyptian Postures
isbn 9780993372858

144 Pages, 21 x 15 cm

Casebound in gold cloth with red foil and red page edges

Colour endpapers

Black & white text, with twelve photographs and 31 line drawings

Printed in Europe by SYL Barcelona

Edition of 1000 copies 

Published by The Everyday Press, London

www.theeverydaypress.net
www.ianwhittlesea.net
www.selfpublishbehappy.com

Ian Whittlesea – The Egyptian Postures

Ian Whittlesea – The Egyptian Postures
Book launch on Thursday 4th May 2017, 7-9pm
at
Libreria
65 Hanbury Street
London
E1 5JP

The Egyptian Postures
Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish

The 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 participant’s body generating an intense light from within.
This edition of Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish’s original instructions has been newly edited and illustrated by Ian Whittlesea with images of actor Ery Nzaramba demonstrating the postures and an in-depth essay by Pádraic E. Moore that explores the relationships between esoteric movements, their racial theories and early modernism's embrace and eventual dismissal of the occult, Mazdaznan and Itten.

144 pages, hardcover casebound in gold cloth with red foil and red page edges
edition of 1000
published by The Every Day Press
isbn 978-0-9561738-9-8
special launch price £ 25, a limited edition Riso print produced at Libreria will accompany the first 50 copies purchased

www.ianwhittlesea.net
www.libreria.io
www.theeverydaypress.net

Sarah Dobai & Ian Whittlesea at Roaming ROOM, London

 The Everyday Press presents
Sarah Dobai & Ian Whittlesea
at Roaming ROOM
Thursday 9th February

Roaming Room
24 Manchester Street

London
W1U 4DJ
http://www.roomartspace.co.uk/current.php


Sarah Dobai will be staging a new performance work entitled The Forged Coupon. The work will feature footage streamed from an inaccessible room in the gallery building accompanied by a live reading of excerpts from Leo Tolstoy’s short story ‘The Forged Coupon’ (1912). The story unfolds from a scene that tells of a schoolboy solving his need for money by passing off a large value forged bank note to pay for a frame in a photography shop.
The performance relates to the forthcoming Everyday Press publication The Copyists.

Ian Whittlesea will be presenting a series of posters in advance of the artist’s upcoming publication The Egyptian Postures featuring photographs of Ery Nzaramba demonstrating twelve esoteric Finger Exercises.
Ian Whittlesea’s work is concerned with words, and with the ability of text to transform the physical and psychic state of the viewer. It assumes many forms, from painstaking paintings to printed books, ephemeral posters and transient projections, and explores the relationships between language, image and diagram both on the page and in the world.

Ian Whittlesea – In The Beginning...

Ian Whittlesea – In The Beginning...
10 January – 4 March 2017
1961 Projects PTE Ltd
Oxley Bizhub 2#06-17
62 Ubi Road 1
Singapore 408734
gabriel.loy@gmail.com

The exhibition Ian Whittlesea – In The Beginning... is the first show at 1961, a new project space initiated by Gabriel Loy in Singapore

see:
http://www.ianwhittlesea.net/exhibitions_pages/ex_1961/1961.html

Ian Whittlesea – In The Beginning... 1961 Projects PTE Ltd, Singapore

Ian Whittlesea – In The Beginning...
10 January – 4 March 2017
1961 Projects PTE Ltd
Oxley Bizhub 2#06-17
62 Ubi Road 1
Singapore 408734
gabriel.loy@gmail.com

The exhibition Ian Whittlesea – In The Beginning... is the first show at 1961, a new project space initiated by Gabriel Loy in Singapore

Ian Whittlesea – T€MPORAR¥ PARADI$€, Rainbow Unicorn, Berlin

the book Becoming Invisible and the new print The changing of bodies into light... of Ian Whittlesea are included in the exhibition:
T€MPORAR¥ PARADI$€
21 July – 30 September 2016
Rainbow Unicorn
Anklamerstrasse 50
10115 Berlin
www.rainbow-unicorn.com

Ian Whittlesea and Emil Salto – After the Light / SixtyEight, Kopenhagen

Ian Whittlesea – Emil Salto
After the Light
6 November – 5 December 2015
SixtyEight
Valkensdorfsgade 11
1151 Kopenhagen
Denmark
www.sixtyeight.dk

a two-person show featuring works by Emil Salto and Ian Whittlesea, curated by Louise Chignac and Iben Elmstrøm.
more infowww.ianwhittlesea.net

Ian Whittlesea – exhibitions Summer 2015

Ian Whittlesea is taking part this Summer in the following group exhibitions

Business as Usual (2)
10 July – 1 August 2015
Turf Projects
Keeley Road
Croydon CR0 1TF
www.turf-projects.com

The Infinite Lawn
Adriano Amaral, Vanessa Billy, Petra Feriancová, Falke Pisano, Yann Sérandour, Ian Whittlesea
16 July – 15 August 2015
Tenderpixel
8 Cecil Court
London WC2N 4HE
www.tenderpixel.com

Resource
Clay Arlington, Jack Brindley, Ben Cain, Maurice Carlin, Daniel Eatock, Sean Edwards, Anne Harild with Blue Room, Jonzo, Laurence Payot, The Serving Library, Print Club, The Piracy Project, Ian Whittlesea
17 July – 27 September 2015
Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool L1 3BX
www.thebluecoat.org.uk

Exercises in Empathy
Daria Martin, Rudolphe Von Laban, Ian Whittlesea
24 July – 5 September 2015
Site Gallery
1 Brown Street
Sheffield S1 2BS
www.sitegallery.org

more info: www.ianwhittlesea.net
images © 2015, Ian Whittlesea

Drawing Room Biennial 2015

Drawing Biennial 2015
exhibition: 5 March – 30 April 2015
auction: 16 April 10am – 30 April 9pm 2015

Peter Liversidge and Ian Whittlesea are among 200 artists who have a work at the Drawing Biennial 2015 at:
Drawing Room
Tannery Arts
12 Rich Estate
Crimscott Street
London SE1 5TE
www.drawingroom.org.uk

image top
Peter Liversidge – Winter Drawing 24 V 22, 2015
cut tape on paper, 29,6 x 21 cm

bottom
Ian Whittlesea – The Egyptian Postures, Set Thirteen, 2014
ink and gouache on paper, 29,7 x 21 cm

Milton Keynes Arts Centre Fundraiser 2015

Milton Keynes Arts Centre Fundraiser 2015

Ian Whittlesea and Peter Liversidge are among the 43 artists and designers who were invited by Milton Keynes Arts Centre to make a design for a ceramic plate. The plates will be on show from 7 March until 21 March 2015.
The exhibition is part of a fundraising drive to help raise money to support our artist-led outreach programme working with children from local communities who have little or no access to arts resources.
Bidding closes at 9pm Saturday 21 March 2015.
For info and bidding:
www.miltonkeynesartscentre.org

Milton Keynes Arts Centre
Parklands
Milton Keynes
MK14 5DZ
England, UK

images Ian Whittlesea (top), Peter Liversidge (bottom)

Ian Whittlesea – Marlborough Contemporary

"I never thought I'd would see you again"
Painting History
Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, Jason Brooks, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, Pamela Golden, Diango Hernández, Narelle Jubelin, Koen van den Broek, Ian Whittlesea
21 january – 27 February 2015
Marlborough Contemporary
6 Albemarle Street
London W1S 4BY
www.marlboroughcontemporary.com

Ian Whittlesea – Winterreise, Christine Park Gallery

Winterreise
group exhibition with Jessica Rayner, Leo, Ian Whittlesea, Dan Hays & Dermot O'Brien
23 january – 14 February 2015
Christine Park Gallery
35 Riding House Street
London W1W 7EA
www.christinepark.net

Ian Whittlesea – Breath is Life, Grundy Art Gallery

Ian Whittlesea – Breath is Life
17 January – 14 March 2015
Grundy Art Gallery
Queen Street
Blackpool FY1 1PU
England, UK
info http://www.grundyartgallery.com/programme/forthcoming/

On 14 March, 2.30pm, There will be an Artist Talk by Ian Whittlesea at the gallery, free admission, bookings: grundyartgallery@blackpool.gov.uk

image Ian Whittlesea – Mazdaznan, Sense of Taste & Willpower (Ruby Law), 2015, Lambda Duratrans on Lightbox

Ian Whittlesea at Tenderbooks, London

Ian Whittlesea

Attaining Cosmic Consciousness:

Books, Drawings and Ephemera Ex Libris

Thursday 9 October 2014, 7-9pm with a discussion

between Anna Gritz & Ian Whittlesea, 7.30-8pm 

Until Saturday 25 October, Tuesday – Saturday, 11-6pm

Tenderbooks

6 Cecil Court

London WC2N 4HE

http://www.tenderbooks.co.uk

Tenderbooks is pleased to present a display of books, drawings, records, pamphlets and ephemera collected by artist Ian Whittlesea. Some for sale, others not, the collection documents the information and inspiration behind Whittlesea's own publications.  

Part physical bibliography and part record of interrelated and overlapping obsessions, the display links Johannes Itten, the Bauhaus, Mazdaznan, Yves Klein and judo with alchemy, physical culture, theosophy, Rosicrucianism and theories of invisibility.
A limited edition letterpress bookplate will be published to accompany the display and a number of the original drawings for Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture will be on show.
There will also be a short discussion between Anna Gritz (Associate Curator, South London Gallery) and Ian Whittlesea at 7.30pm on the night of the opening. 

Ian Whittlesea’s work is concerned with words, and with the ability of text to transform the physical and psychic state of the viewer. His translation of Yves Klein’s Les Fondements du Judo was published in 2009 and his newly illustrated edition of Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture in 2012. These texts, along with his most recent book Becoming Invisible, have been collectively described as ‘instruction manuals for transcendental exercise’. He is represented by Marlborough Contemporary, London.

A list of available items can be viewed here: 

http://ianwhittlesea.net/acc.pdf

more info http://www.tenderbooks.co.uk/post/99042915854/ianwhittlesea

Ian Whittlesea – Closing Event of 'A Breathing Bulb' / Marlborough Contemporary

Ian Whittlesea – A Breathing Bulb
6 August – 6 September 2014
Marlborough Contemporary
6 Albemarle Street
London W1S 4BY

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, throughout August, Ian Whittlesea's new work, 'A Breathing Bulb', has been illuminating the gallery at Marlborough Contemporary.

You are welcome at the closing event at Marlborough Contemporary. The gallery will be open from 6-8pm on Thursday 4th September 2014

more info
http://marlboroughcontemporary.com/exhibitions/?type=current
http://marlboroughcontemporary.com/
http://ianwhittlesea.net/exhibitions_pages/ex_bulb/ex_bulb.html