Sometimes, the best way to defuse loaded phrases is to stare them down. An early version of Evil Axis was commissioned by The Verb in 2001 as an “audio cartoon”; then recreated in a slightly adjusted version in 2006 for a series of live-to-air performances.
The piece is composed from a series of neologisms and noms de personne through a process of single letter rotation. The series of new words then became the basis for a narrative intended to defuse the word grenade, at least for a few moments.
Hereby donated to the Creative Commons: why oh why oh why are you so evil……
Gregory Whitehead 