confusion

…one must abandon the assumption that the image contains and

shows fidelity to its referent. This in turn means that one can no longer use the code of causality

as a means of image continuity. Preferably, one should use liquid associational structures that

invite various interpretations. To be sure, all imaging systems are mediated by the viewer: The

question is, to what degree? Few systems invite interpretation, and hence meaning is imposed

more often than it is created. Many producers, for fear of allowing interpretation to drift out of

control, have shunned the use of associational structures for politicized electronic imaging.

Further, associational films tend toward the abstract, and therefore become confusing, making

them ineffective among the disinterested. These problems prompt the eternal return to more

authoritarian models. The answer to such commentary is that the viewer deserves the right to

disinterest, and the freedom to drift. Confusion should be seen as an acceptable aesthetic. The

moment of confusion is the precondition for the scepticism necessary for radical thought to

emerge. The goals then of resistant nonfiction video are twofold: Either to call attention to and

document the sign construction of simulation, or to establish confusion and scepticism so that

simulations cannot function…

—The Critical Art Ensemble

This is why.



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