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Fly-posted at 1.30pm Friday 9th December 2011, Langham House, 308 Regent Street, London. The poster announces a new edition of Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture, (edited, illustrated and appended by Ian Whittlesea) to be published by Open Editions, London in 2012. It was fly-posted on the façade of Langham House, 308 Regent Street, London. Now an office block with a McDonalds on one side and a newsagent on the other Langham House was, in the 1930s and 40s, the home of the British Mazdaznan Association. Mazdaznan was a global religious movement led from Chicago by its founder Dr Otoman Zar Adusht Ha’nish M.D. The artist and teacher Johannes Itten was a devout Mazdaznan. He taught the first generation of Bauhaus students to follow the Mazdaznan vegetarian diet and practice the exercises outlined in Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture. - In autumn 2011 fifteen artists were invited to design a poster, post it somewhere and document the piece in its chosen location. The posters were anticipated as temporarily situated objects, announcements or simply as gestures put forward. Forth & Back is a new publication from The Everyday Press and Furnished Editions that documents these posters together with their brief contexts. The contributors to Forth & Back are: Richard Bevan/ Melanie Counsell/ Sean Edwards/ The Everyday Press/ Richard Healy/ Ian Homerston/ Pernille Leggat Ramfelt/ Sara MacKillop/ Jonathan Monk/ Catalina Niculescu/ Ben Öztat/ Colin Sackett/ Jake Tilson/ Watts of Goodwill/ Ian Whittlesea Forth & Back, £10, 97 pages, 145 x 205mm ISBN: 978-0-9561738-5-0 A special edition of the publication together with A4 prints of each poster is also available from Furnished Editions for £50. A Limoncello punctuation programme organised by Tamsin Clark, Wednesday 27 June 7-9pm 2012 www.limoncellogallery.co.uk |
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