Laura Oldfield Ford's Savage Messiah available to buy
Laura Oldfield Ford's Savage Messiah available to buy
October 1, 2011
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.
"One of the most striking fanzines of recent years is Laura Oldfield Ford's Savage Messiah, focusing 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 Auge, 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 psychology. 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
"This black and white, cut'n'past-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
"Savage Messiah's fractured narratives, clipped sloganeering and topographical poetics have been, for the last decade or so, a kind of solace for anyone who loathed the cocked-up arrogance, the intellectual and political vacuity and compulsory amnesia of the boom. It was a constant reminder that bad times were just around the corner." Owen Hatherley, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
"No exercise in style nostalgia, this is her recovery of punk's provocation and politicisation." Art Review
buy a copy at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Savage-Messiah-Laura-Oldfield-Ford/dp/1844677478
"One of the most striking fanzines of recent years is Laura Oldfield Ford's Savage Messiah, focusing 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 Auge, 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 psychology. 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
"This black and white, cut'n'past-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
"Savage Messiah's fractured narratives, clipped sloganeering and topographical poetics have been, for the last decade or so, a kind of solace for anyone who loathed the cocked-up arrogance, the intellectual and political vacuity and compulsory amnesia of the boom. It was a constant reminder that bad times were just around the corner." Owen Hatherley, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
"No exercise in style nostalgia, this is her recovery of punk's provocation and politicisation." Art Review
buy a copy at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Savage-Messiah-Laura-Oldfield-Ford/dp/1844677478
