The acclaimed art fanzine’s psychogeographic drifts through a ruined city.
Laura Oldfield Ford, originally from Halifax, West Yorkshire, studied at the Royal College of Art and has become well known for her politically active and poetic engagement with London as a site of social antagonism. She exhibits and teaches across Europe and America.
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*
Oldfield Ford displays authentic gifts as a recorder and mapper of
terrain. She is a necessary kind of writer, smart enough to bring
document and poetry together in a scissors-and-paste,
post-authorial form.
*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*
No exercise in style nostalgia, this is her recovery of punk’s
provocation and politicization.
*Art Review*
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