RE/Search Publications — PRANKS 2!
One of my favorite books back in the 80’s was PRANKS by RE/Search Publications. Now the 2nd issue is out featuring interviews with monochrom, Yesmen and others:
RE/Search Publications — PRANKS 2!: “Due This November.
Imagine we are fish swimming in the sea, and no matter where we look we see advertising, branding, marketing, and corporate/governmental coercive messages everywhere. What we once thought of as news, knowledge, politics, culture, art, music, and wisdom has all become one with this ocean of marketing and mind-control.What to do? How to keep one¹s sanity, sense of freedom, and unique identity? What can we do to resist?Resistance is ultimately dispiriting unless we can also have fun. ³The society that has abolished adventure makes its own abolishing the only adventure.² [Situationist slogan] The last remaining quasi-legal territory of imaginative, humorous, creative, dissenting expression is signposted by pranks.
What are pranks? For us, pranks are any humorous deeds, propaganda, sound bites, visual bites, performances and creative projects which pierce the veil of illusion and tell ³the truth.² Pranks u”
(Via monochrom.at.)