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: SANDBERG SERIES; Laura Oldfield Ford
The host:
Judith Leysner
Location:
Duration per appointment: 50 minutes.
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Laura Oldfield Ford (1973 UK) is a British artist and psychogeographer. Her work takes the form of a psychogeographic investigation, a process of subjectively mapping the city in its intensive state of movement and flux. Central to her practice are her walks around cities. Through these drifts, and the documentation of them, she seeks the point of transition from aesthetic practice to a radical critique of the city. Her drawings combine seemingly disparate elements in a process akin to montage; they sprawl like urban conurbations and become a landscape of the imagina- tion, documenting rapid obsessions, curiosities and desires. Ford regards her work as diaristic, suggesting the city can be read as a palimpsest, of layers of erasure and overwriting.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2007 she has become well known for her politically active and poetic engagement with London as a site of social antagonism. She is the author of ‘Savage Messiah’.
LOCATION
Goethe-Institut
Herengracht 470
Amsterdam
ENTRANCE
5 euro / 3 Euro (concession)
Free entrance for students from the Sandberg Institute
Please contact info@amsterdam.goethe.org or call +31-20 5312900 for reservations. For more information: www.sandberg.nl
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