A live video stream of me underneath earth inside an Arabic symbol for "PS" (shown from above) while accessing a video instructing how to draw the Arabic Alphabet made available with another video camera underneath the earth with me.

Video and link: Dr. Khalil Barhoum
Coordinator and AME Minor Adviser,
African & Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures
Stanford Language Center
Bldg. 240-213
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Video Stream: Caterina Verde
www.strangepositioningsystems.org

Another video camera will be installed directly above the work during the opening performance and the length the exhibition. During the O.P. the video will be uploaded onto a live video stream on an Internet link and will then be projected on the walls of multiple global venues as it occurs. After the O.P. live footage of the growth process of the grass can be witnessed via this link generated and maintained by, www.strangepostioningsystems.org
Caterina Verda, Curator.

The perfromance calls for the artist to install himself inside the Arabic word.

Once the artist is inside the mold with a microphone and small surveillance camera, plant soil will be added into the space inside the structure, covering the artist entirely. As visitors approach they will hear his breathing but uncertian of its origin. While inside the Verbal Seed, the artist will go to a site on the internet and view video clips of how to write the Arabic alphabet. The surveilance camera inside with him will pick up this imagery which will inturn be uploaded onto a live video stream that shows another live view from above. In time the artist will emerge from underneath the soil and sprinkle grass seed upon the surface. With in 7 days, the seeds will germinate, 10cm blades of grass will sprout and during the 3 weeks of the exhibition, they will turn a grayish light brown and fold like hair.