March 2005 / April 2007
Oxford, Ohio

On the urgency of a destructive impulse, two books were picked at random from the stacks in King Library at Miami University – one poetry, one prose. They were taken to a carrel and lines from each were quickly blacked out. The books were put back on the shelves. The titles weren't noted.

The two videos were saved as .mov files and exported into separate folders as image sequences. The image files (formatted as .png) were named such that those in one folder became - 1.png / 3.png / 5.png / 7.png / etc - and those in the other became - 2.png / 4.png / 6.png / 8.png / etc. Dropping both image sequences into one folder and importing the folder as an image sequence resulted in this flicker between the frames of the two source videos.

This video loop was published on the papertiger media cd-rom New World Poetry #05/06 (editors Paul Hardacre et al). It was first screened in Minneapolis during the release party for Maria Damon & mIEKAL aND's pleasureTEXTpossession at Magers and Quinn bookstore on July 22, 2005.

Video loop re-published here on the condition that the original title of "textoristicism" be changed to "Black Rainbows." The title gets its name from the sound-work, which was made as a separate piece. I produced the source sound by banging my keys on a table. The sound and video were edited together on the occasion of assembling this selection of work (P03M5).