Through her zine Savage Messiah, drawings and public drifts, artist Laura Oldfield Ford has recoded the urban fabric of London, bringing its repressed revenants to the fore.  Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed her about the varied registers of her practice and the processes of regeneration it critically chronicles.

There are many polemics against regeneration in your work. To what extent do you see regeneration as the primary object of critique in your practice?

Artist Nils Norman has engaged extensively with the language of urban planning, architecture and urban regeneration. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed him about the positioning of his work between the mutually exclusive worlds of art and urban development

Freee's art is often situated outside the confines of the gallery, but doesn't define itself as public art – indeed it is largely preoccupied with a critique of the interests served by art in public space.

In her recent show, Kate Rich harnesses the spare baggage capacity of the globe-trotting art world to create a ‘feral trade' network of human scale exchange. John Millar has trouble suspending his disbelief

I am hoping this is some kind of parody of the nigh universal tendency for (relational/new media/ all?) art to resemble the collateral campaign in The Man Without Qualities. [cf Matthew Hyland's great article on Documenta in Mute a few years back]. But it might just be a second order symptom of the disease hiding behind the illusion of a cure.