INTERZONE

TITLE - INTERZONE 

CREATED BY - CORMAC PENTECOST & LAWRENCE BAILEY

GENRE - EDGELANDS/PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY/URBAN SPACES

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN - UNITED KINGDOM 

7"x5"/PAMPHLET/20 PAGES/BLACK & WHITE

PRICE - £4.00 + SHIPPING FROM TEMPORAL BOUNDARY PRESS

Written by Cormac Pentecost, with monochrome photographs and layout by Lawrence Bailey, "Interzone" is a standalone zine that features an edited version of a longer essay entitled "Edgelands: Birthing A New Lore". It discusses the concept of "edgelands" - those vague and indistinct lands between the order of urban spaces and the wildness of the countryside. Such areas conform to no known laws, and have often been the sites of violence, both criminal and sexual. Cormac Pentecost argues that the negative energy created in these areas should be turned around and used positively, to write a new folklore and create spaces for positive experimentation and artistic freedom.

The zine is a short, intelligent read, and comes from the same creative stable that brought us "Man Is The Animal: A Coil Zine" and "Waiting For You: A Detectorists Zine" , which is all the recommendation you need. Lawrence Bailey's evocative monochrome photos document the kinds of places we all have in our own towns: a world of burnt-out cars and discarded carrier bags. If you enjoy the work of Iain Sinclair and J. G. Ballard and your folklore tastes tend towards the urban, then "Interzone" is concise and thought-provoking.