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- STREET ART UTOPIA. Cacophony Ideas. Nancy Prussia. « the pyramid beach roadhouse. The Cacophony Society, Clowns on the Bus, Santacon and the Palahnuiak connection… from RE/SEARCH PUBLICATIONS: PRANKS! 2 Early member John Law interviewed by V.Vale JOHN LAW: 1977. I was just an eighteen-yearold juvenile delinquent who didn’t know anything about anything! I was fortunate to join the Suicide Club, which introduced me to a world of adventure. Our motto was: ‘To live each day as though it were your last.’ V: Now, who started the Suicide Club? JL: Five people started it. Gary was heavily influenced by the Surrealists and the Dadaists. Going out to the drawbridge of an abandoned ghost town and almost being run over by a train coming out of the mist made you realize how ‘real’ the experience was, even though it seemed so unreal and phantasmagoric.
At that time, Gary was a chief administrator for the ‘Communiversity,’ which started in 1969 at San Francisco State College. Gary and a few other people decided to separate from S.F. V:So it was a quest for an intense group experience?
FM Transmitters. The Art of the Prank » Blog » The Cacophony Society. The Society is a loosely structured network of individuals, banded together in “the pursuit of experiences beyond the mainstream.” Particularly noteworthy among said experiences are Cacophony’s costumed rampages in the guise of clowns, Santas, dogs, biohazard teams, and post-apocalyptic shoppers, as well pranks and hoaxes including flyers announcing public pigeon roasts, UFO landings, and book-burnings. Cacophonists have also tinkered with public spaces and property in a number of ways including gluing toasters to walls, modifying billboards, offering plaster casts to random passers-by, chalking imaginary crime scenes on sidewalks, and stocking retail shelves with altered consumer goods (e.g, cement-filled teddy bears, dildo-shaped dog chews, etc.) The name “Cacophony” embodies the group’s shared love of cultural noise: belief systems, aesthetics, and ways of living, striking a note of discord against prevailing harmonies.
. © Rev. Al. Into the Zone: The Story of the Cacophony Society. [Video Link] I'm looking forward to Into the Zone, a documentary about the Cacophony Society, which was a pranksterish underground cultural movement from San Francisco that paved the way for Burning Man. There will be a screening on Saturday, February 4, 2012 in Santa Ana, CA, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker Jon Alloway and Cacophony instigators that I'll be moderating. Hope to see you there! Get advance tickets here! Into the Zone: The Story of the Cacophony Society Benefit Preview Screening at The Yost Theate 307 N Spurgeon St, Santa Ana, CA 92701 The Cacophony Society Zone Show: You May Already be a MemberGrand Central Art Center 125 North Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Runs February 4 - April 15 More information after the jump: EXHIBITION: The Cacophony Society Zone Show is a retrospective look at the Cacophony Society, a national collective of guerrilla artists, dada pranksters, and various eccentrics pursuing "experiences beyond the mainstream.
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