Commando Raid on the Naval Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Installation by the Suicide Club.
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A guide of how to do events, from the San Francisco Suicide Club, circa 1977
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The Suicide Club - Notes by Gary Warne. February 1977
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SF Suicide Club - Suggestions Based Upon Experiential Data….or…………..Blowing it (From the Golden Hind, Sewers & Kennedy Hotel Events) by Gary Warne, John Law, Adrienne Burk, David Warren (1978)
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The San Francisco suicide club, 1977 initiation rituals.
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A chronology of the SF Suicide Club as of 1982
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Why Events Don’t Have to be Grand or Elaborate by Gary Warne. About the San Francisco Suicide Club. Circa 1977
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A description of the SF Suicide Club from 1977
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The Suicide Club’s First Calendar of Events, February 14, 1977. Gary Warne and others formed the Suicide Club in 1977, a precursor to the Cacophony Society.
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An attempt to describe the stunts, parodies, and put-ons of the Suicide Club by Gary Warne
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Suicide Club First Initiation by John Law (Feb 2, 1977). Reflection on initiation to the Suicide Club.
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CARNIVAL COSMOLOGY – Gary Warne
The world is a midway; cities are its sideshows. The only difference between children and adults is that there is no one to take care of us. When we left home it meant we were lost on the midway and, unlike God, the carny boss will only let us ride as long as we pay.
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The Suicide Club was a secret society in San Francisco. The club was founded by Gary Warne and three friends: Adrienne Burk, David Warren, and Nancy Prussia. The Suicide Club inspired the Cacophony Society, which in turn strongly influenced the early Burning Man gatherings.
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The Clown at Midnight by Gary Warne. Warne’s essay on perception and interpretation and the influence of the article “What is Horror” by Robert Block.
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The Auto Destruct Arts movement began shortly after WWI and had a lasting influence through the 70s. The destruction must happen in public; it could not be consumed privately for a select group. The work must destroy by itself once the process had begun to avoid any sense of ownership over the development of the destruction, and the work must return to its original state of nothingness.
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