Essential Lessons

Performative lecture by Louise Menzies.

Auckland-based artist Louise Menzies’ lecture will elucidate on the School of Radiant Living, a mid-twentieth-century movement based in Havelock North that taught holistic philosophy, spirituality and physical health. She will draw on the educational material produced by the School including a set of audio recordings of lectures delivered by the School’s leader Herbert Sutcliffe, the journal The Radiant Messenger, as well as her own digressions. Menzies’ performative lecture will focus on the School’s principles of self-education and how these ideals can be located within a broader historical context of alternative living practices during the twentieth century.

A 2011 Victoria University of Wellington Orientation event organised with assistance from the J. C. Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington Library.

A substantial publication produced by the artist and Clouds Publishing, as an element of Menzies’ project, will be launched in Wellington this May.

Event listed by AdamArtGallery

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