Dec 17, 2015
John Law (original member of the Suicide Club and the Cacophony Society ((http://www.cacophony.org)); co-founder of the Billboard Liberation Front and of the Burning Man Festival, USA). Moderated by Marie Lechner (journalist and researcher, FR). How everything started in San Francisco Rumors of pie wielding assassins and a cryptic invitation to explore the miasmal underbelly of the urban landscape seen in a hippy free university calendar in 1977, was enough to enflame the curiosity of seventeen-year old John Law. A subsequent initiation into the secretive Suicide Club propelled Law into a thirty-eight year “career” amidst the hidden world of pranks, urban exploration, counter culture, ‘Culture Jamming’ and creative mayhem. Fight Club, Burning Man, SantaCon, media hacking, urban exploration, street art, flash mobs and more - these are some of the cultural phenomena that were initiated or somehow influenced by the Suicide Club, and the subsequent sub-cultures that Law was fortunate to have fallen into as a teenaged juvenile delinquent. This presentation reveals some of the genesis & history of these groups including a brief survey of their precedents and influences on through the present day iterations, spin offs and ‘fellow travellers’. The idea we hope you take away from this presentation is simply this: this strange, obscure world is available to anyone who can appreciate the concept that “you may already be a member”. Source: http://www.disruptionlab.org/stunts/ (http://www.disruptionlab.org/stunts/) Produced by Voice Republic For more podcasts visit http://voicerepublic.com