Inscribing culture conjures ghosts, visions, aberrations.  This is certainly true for me.  For what haunts all media communication is not what is communicated, rather it is our unwillingness to see that the very essence of our media is ill-communication.

And so, it is here within the televisual terrain of mechanical reproduction that I invoke these spirit voices into critical cultural dissensus.  Primitive incantations where meaning making fragments at the permeability of boundaries, at the performance of sacred symbolic ritualization: ‘Even signs must burn.’

Over my lifetime, I too have wontedly created cultural  ‘inscriptions,’ and have appropriated more still.  Yet once collected, collated, re-membered, re-functioned and theorized, my TV works remain obligated, dually commanded toward the double-bind of public remediation. In short, to be conjured into potlatch sacrifice once again for challenging our accursed camera/screen surety and its pornographication of contemporary culture.

Here I contend that a greater exchange of fatal strategies within the figurative landscape of televisual language (particularly intellectual montage and allegorical lament) deeply contributes to social fecundity in ways that radically rupture, carnivalize and innervate traditional media models.  ‘When the doors are barricaded, it is doubly important that thought not be interrupted.’

If you do not find critical ethnographic surrealism here, then simply consider these carvings to be experimental totems, dangerous ‘shame pole’ gifts from a video witch doctor to inviolable North American media-tribes.  For each video in this project is a maledictive transgression of media banality purposefully inscribed in these dark corners to help redeem the black magic of communication.