Carrie Galbraith & John William Vincent Law are founding members of
the Cacophony Society and co-authored "Tales of the San Francisco
Cacophony Society" along with Kevin Evans "From Fight Club to Burning
Man, Flash Mobs to Santarchy cacophony influenced everything
subversive, playful and anti-authoritarian in popular culture over the
last 20 years – this is the great, untold story of the 1980s and
'90s.Before the Internet vomited headlines by the millisecond and
turned the minutia of a million boring Facebook lives into news, we
were left the privilege of mystery.This was something The San
Francisco Cacophony Society gave me in spades. Over the years, I would
catch glimpses, collect pieces of a puzzle I was slowly assembling—a
car crushed flat by an earthquake miraculously tooling down Golden
Gate, toasters glued to buildings, news-clips of mock protests and
costumed impostors, flyers for strange art spectacles. Now the puzzle
is assembled in this gorgeous graphic collection, a book every lover
of eccentricity and enemy of the status quo should enjoy." —Margaret
Cho The Cacophony Society is a randomly gathered network of free
spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of
mainstream society.”It was started in 1986 by surviving members of
the now defunct Suicide Club of San Francisco. Cacophony has been
described as an indirect culture jamming outgrowth of the Dada
movement, and the Situationists. One of its central concepts is the
Trip to the Zone, or Zone Trip, inspired by the 1979 Film Stalker by
Andrei Tarkovsky. According to self-designated members of the Society,
“you may already be a member.” The anarchic nature of the Society
means that membership is left open-ended and anyone may sponsor an
event, though not every idea pitched garners attendance by members.
Cacophony events often involve costumes and pranks in public places
and sometimes going into places that are generally off limits to the
public. Cacophonists have been known to regale Christmas shoppers with
improvised Christmas carols while dressed as Santa Claus.
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