Processual Video (1980)

This piece was originally planned by the artist as a reading for the Viewpoint series at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art It was an attempt to circumscribe my work in the structure of a reading Hill explains Processual Video is minimal with regards to an image but quite complex in terms of the interplay of language and image In fact the image as such functions more as a tracking device On a black screen a white line slowly rotates on its own axis seemingly generating a spoken text that refers to itself Depending on its position the line gets narrower then wider finally dissipating horizontally into thin white strokes While this is happening Hill reads a text that triggers associations and wordplays with the precise position and detail of the continuously changing line