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One of the most striking fanzines of recent years is Laura Oldfield Ford s Savage Messiah, focussing on the politics, psychology and pop- cultural past of a different London postcode. Ford s prose is scabrous and melancholic, incorporating theoretical shards from Guy Debord and Marc Augé, and mapping the transformations to the capital that the property boom and neoliberalist economics have wrought. Each zine is a drift, a wander through landscape that echoes certain strands of contemporary psychogeography. Ford or a version of her, at least is an occasional character, offering up narcotic memories of a forgotten metropolis. The images, hand-drawn, photographed and messily laid out, suggest both outtakes from a Sophie Calle project and the dust jacket of an early 1980s anarcho-punk compilation record: that is, both poetry and protest. --Sukhdev Sandhu, New Statesman
The consumer-friendly face of neoliberal Britain gets an anarchic makeover in Laura Oldfield Ford's politically biting work. ... No false promises of a brighter, better, more sanitised tomorrow here. Instead, she focuses on areas haunted by an urban dispossessed, which regeneration seeks to concrete over: city wastelands where fortress-like old tower-blocks rise, with their Escher-like walkways and bleak recreational open spaces. --Guardian
This black-and-white, cut n paste-style zine by the artist Laura Oldfield Ford, in which she traces her psychogeographical drifts around London s grimey underbelly, has achieved cult status in art circles since its first issue in 2005. Be warned: this is a city you won t find in any guidebook. --Independent
The consumer-friendly face of neoliberal Britain gets an anarchic makeover in Laura Oldfield Ford's politically biting work. ... No false promises of a brighter, better, more sanitised tomorrow here. Instead, she focuses on areas haunted by an urban dispossessed, which regeneration seeks to concrete over: city wastelands where fortress-like old tower-blocks rise, with their Escher-like walkways and bleak recreational open spaces. --Guardian
This black-and-white, cut n paste-style zine by the artist Laura Oldfield Ford, in which she traces her psychogeographical drifts around London s grimey underbelly, has achieved cult status in art circles since its first issue in 2005. Be warned: this is a city you won t find in any guidebook. --Independent
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Savage Messiah collects together the entire set of Laura Oldfield Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city's working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space.
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A staunch walk through londons sleeping, despised by the likes of BoJo. A past and present some choose to ignore, as if, something better is happening elsewhere, just round this corner, it'll be all right, don't look left or right. A book Boz and his illustrators would have appreciated and understood. Highly recommended if you are interested in Londons calling.
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