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It's no wonder the surrealists and conceptualists loved Beery, handing him hundreds on the spot, words can perform in a way that art doesn't, forming an address almost inherently surreal, a transmission between people, almost infiltrative, allowing its horsemen direct access to your head, to say whatever it wants, and already there, words hanging around inside you.
see too: Mark Grotjhan at Karma, Trevor Shimizu at 47 Canal, Trevor Shimizu at Rowhouse Project