Glas Haus/Anon Salon

Joegh Bullock, Marcia Crosby and Mark Petrakis (as Glas Haus and then Anon Salon) [external link], have been producing parties since the early 1980s.

Through Robert Strange, a mad genius if ever there was one, I was involved in dozens of performances and installations where audiences varied in size from a few hundred to a few thousand, depending on the venue and the occassion. As such, I was often working as some combination of set builder, prop maker, performer, electrician, projectionist, grip, janitor, and security.

Robert would devise a series of performances and installations based on the punny theme of the event, collect materials and people who would rush in, set up, perform and strike within a matter of hours. Below is but one example of the effort.

Glas Haus and Anon Salon are notorious for their whimsical punnery and marketing chutzpah.

[Copied from their website]

HISTORY OF ANON SALON

ANON SALON, over the course of its 15-year existence, has helped redefine West Coast event production by producing hundreds of unique theme parties, theater festivals, art shows and even street fairs for Burning Man fans in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. The company was born out of San Francisco’s alternative art and performance scene of the 1980’s. From the beginning, they helped shape an ever-growing community of multi-media artists and event producers into a network of non-commercial, unadvertised one-off events and large public gatherings. Unlike conventional concert, club or theatrical events, these one-off gatherings were specialized one-of-a-kind theme party/events. Production laden and technologically cutting edge, they included not only music, but also performance artists, installation, lighting and video artists, theatrics and unique décor, that quickly began to attract an audience that brought their own ideas to the mix. The evolution of their party spectacles has always reflected the changing face of the creative community. As their website asserts, "ANON SALON teases technology, embraces the arts, and flirts with the unknown. … It celebrates all that's eclectic and electric in art, design, and media providing a place to grab new ideas before business as usual turns them into formulas.

Anon founders, JOEGH BULLOCK and MARCIA CROSBY have been central to San Francisco's alternative and underground art scene since the late 1970's. Besides ANON SALON, their endeavors include the GlasHaus parties of the mid-1980's, Icon Byte Bar and Grill (the first Internet bar and cafe in SF), the award-winning Climate Theater, the world famous Solo Mio performance festival. More recently, Joegh has co-created and co-produced San Francisco-based Burning Man Festival parties such as Flambé Lounge and the Decompression Heat the Street Faire.