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BLUE,RED,YELLOW

color videotape, 40 minutes, silent, 1974.

"Blue,Red,Yellow" stresses a dichotomy inherent in television. The screen serves here as a flat pictorial surface and at the same time as an electronic media, a source of energy with the possibilities for added dimensions. A hand applies adhesive tape, strip by strip slowly to the surface of the screen until it is completely covered. First, the screen is covered with blue tape, then with red and finally with yellow. The t.v. screen itself is active, vibrating with television raster. There is contrast between the energy emanating from the tube and the flat surface of the tape and when the screen is finally covered the magnetic pulses come through in cracks creating a tension of captive energy. The use of the subtractive primary colors of our pictorial experience as opposed to the additive primary colors of television stresses again the television dichotomy of pictorial surface and energized field.