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NIGHT DRIFT THROUGH KINGS CROSS:
££££££££££££££££££££
@HOUSMAN’S BOOKSHOP, CALEDONIAN ROAD, N1.
On Saturday 29th of September 7pm ,LAURA OLDFIELD FORD of SAVAGE
MESSIAH ZINE . …………. .. ……. .. …
. ………………… will facilitate a drift through the Kings cross
area. The Savage Messiah employs the tactic of psychogeography to
expose the repressed desires of the city. Savage messiah welcomes
participants to this walk to join a collective cognitive anti mapping of the
city and hopes that stories, anecdotes, drawings, ideas generated on the
route will become part of the next issue of the zine to be launched at
Housman’s in November.
JOHN WILD, frequent collaborator with Savage Messiah and
psychogeographical explorer of data space will be collecting the locative data
calculate from mobile phone signals along the Kings X Drift.

The data
will be compiled into an audio broadcast that will be transmitted in the
location of Housmans book shop at the November launch.
IF OUR FUTURE HAS BEEN STOLEN NOW IS THE TIME TO LOOK BACK WITH
VENGEFUL INTENT.
The greasy rebranding of Kings cross is in its final stages,
sycophantic bilge, faux heritage, fragments left over for the sake of
authenticity. This is the cosmetic veneer that is meant to distance millennial
‘regeneration’ from the tabula rasa brutality of modernism or the high
octane demolition tendencies of Haussmann . Kings Cross is in a state
of confusion,it is in gripped in the foolish tyranny of the
masterplan.
Clarence passage is a strange juxtaposition of old tenements with the
gleaming new architecture of an international airport. All places
become surfaces that can accept the neo liberal stamp. Representations of
places are decontextualized. These are placeless places, liminal realms
opened up for subversion. Little alleyways of boarded up windows open up
in the tenement ravines. And , like the damp construction of some
Stalinist penitentiary are the Costain portakabin slabs.
The Golden Lion on Brittania st, 90’s pub done up, horrible, fuck
this. We’re done up for a bit of the old ultra, a Bakunist wrecking
spree on every gastro pub travesty we can get our hands on. Flick knife
activates at sight of swaggering prick whose class background has assured
him of lording it status, the dirty jeans and scruffy t shirt only
serve to reinforce it.
Laminated flooring, best brawled over Ikea settees .
All I want to see right, is the Clinique counter at Selfridges smashed
up with Paul McCarthy abjection, Robert Gober mannequins trashed in a
Ballardian make up counter frenzy.
Sean, have it, have it go on.
Don’t know what he’s doing, head splitting with the hysterical
banalities of Saturday night tv.
That day when we went in search of the Groaner, we had to scour The
Boot. We scanned the orange paintwork, bottle green tiles and Guiness
trinkets. It was a Saturday afternoon booze up, brawls erupting,
hilarity and shouting, but the Groaner wasn’t there.
“The labyrinth is basically the space where oppositions disintegrate
and grow complicated, where diacritical couples are unbalanced and
perverted etc., where the system upon which linguistic function is based
disintergrates, but somehow disintegrates by itself, having jammed it’s
own works.The labyrinth we discuss cannot be described. Mapping is out
of the question.†Against Architecture The writings of Georges
Bataille, Denis Hollier.
The Savage Messiah seeks out nomadic architecture, transient
architecture, places that can slip out of sight, re emerge and reconfigure
somewhere else. Savage messiah drifts through the city in defiance of
panoptican surveillance, seeking out places that do not exist on official
maps, she roams through a maze of bolt holes, alleyways and sites that slip
through the net. The Savage Messiah gravitates towards settlements and
reconfigurations of forms that become an outward manifestation of
nomadic subjectivities. These are the enchanted places that slip out of
sight, re emerge and reconfigure somewhere else. There are numerous
portals, fluctuating and reversible like a Baroque ceiling, lenses opening
onto other realms.
Camden squatlands, headcases on psychoactive drifts, abandoned boozers,
Nazi occultists, Rimbaud and Verlaine as proto flaneurs,Soane tomb
transgressions, construction site labyrinths, subterranean rivers, Scala
treble bills, Ballardian psychtropic nightmares……….
! VIVA SAVAGE MESSIAH !
SAVAGE MESSIAH DEMANDS THE ABOLITION OF ALL ZONES!! DESTROY CARTESIAN
RHETORIC, SMASH THE VILLE RADIEUSE, SAVAGE MESSIAH IS CALLING FOR A
MASS RETURN TO THE LABYRINTH!!!
Bring pens, chalk, battered cassette recorders, booze.
Contact and info ../
savagemessiah@hotmail.co.uk
John Wild- http://rupture.co.uk/KingXdrift