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When I went to the SFMOMA retrospective with R (in May), there was one piece that really stood out to me-- a city map doctored with text that seemed sometimes facetious (a contact address is listed as "2470 Purgatoire") and sometimes outside cartography's normal discursive bounds entirely (the legend "Main Gate - Security is a child against a building.") It was titled "Different Drugs", by Simon Evans, and when I finally remembered to look him up yesterday, I was thrilled to learn that all of his work is kind of like that:

Simon Evans (small images of selected works)

I'm a sucker for this sort of thing; eerie, abrasive, verbal. "ORIGINAL LOCATION OF ANGRY MUSIC FOR COWARDS", "TOUGH VOICE MAKES MY HEAD LOOK SMALLER", "IF YOU CAN'T KEEP YOUR SHIT TOGETHER ON TV WE WILL EAT YOU". I was not surprised to read that he's a big fan of The Fall. I was more surprised, though it makes sense, to see that he'd exhibited with Brendan Fowler of BARR, whose spoken-word pieces keep threatening to be generically confessional in the same way Evans threatens to be generically political; both of them seem to love wriggling out of their own traps.