BlackWhiteText (1980)

Using the phenomenon of inverted or negative video feedback this work constructs a onetoone correspondence between recited text and image Black and white rectangles embedded one within another against a black background are generated through a closedcircuit system a cameras signal is inverted and displayed on a monitor that the same camera is framing The camera as it were sees itself seeing itself seeing itself and so on Its the inversion itself that produces the alternating black and white rectangles The number of rectangles is based on a precise score involving seven channels of chanted text all in the voice of the artista kind of language canon