Laura Oldfield Ford
â€œOne of the most striking fanzines of recent years is Laura Oldfield Fordâ€™s, Savage Messiah, ,focussing on the politics, psychology and pop- cultural past of a different London postcode. Fordâ€™s prose is scabrous and melancholic, incorporating theoretical shards from Guy Debord and Marc AugÃ©, 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. Fordâ€”or a version of her, at leastâ€”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.â€,â€”Sukhdev Sandhu, New Statesman ,Savage Messiah, collects the entire set of Laura Oldfield Fordâ€™s fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the cityâ€™s working class and an exploration of the cracks that open up in urban space.
Art,Politics,Nonfiction,Sequential Art,Graphic Novels,Music,Cities,Urban Studies
Savage Messiah