Text Intersects Art

"Texts are increasingly less dependent upon a particular and locatable physical original. They become more indifferent to their physical medium and more capable of appearing within different situations. .... So a text, in this sense, can be in many places at the same time whilst the spectator can be in many times at the same place, and unlike the object, we don't have to go to the text, it comes to us". 'Framing Art' , Michael Carter, 1990. Text in the traditional literary sense generally means the words are fated to reproduction whereby there is no single object. How does text used in an artwork art sit within this assumption? Does the text become grounded in the artwork, and therefore the words become anchored to a single object?