C.O.M.A. was a long-term project (1995 - 2000) that attempted to construct a progressive organizational model for the apocalyptic impulse. Part secret society, part religion and part quasi-military signal corps, C.O.M.A. emerged from the discovery of a "lost" language of survival: the International Signal Code. This code, eleven body signals and eighteen ground signals, constituted a form of esoteric knowledge that is simultaneously ubiquitous ("international") and unknown.
Through a series of interventions ("operations"), instructional videos, photographic references, training objects and text, C.O.M.A. engaged in "extreme, hermetic depth research into psychophysical possibilities for evolutionary emergence...operatives attempted to embody primary states of reception and transmission in an effort to open the possibilities underlying all acts of communication and thus, all forms of individual and social organization."
