A crowd assault on an artist erased her address to the audience.

Evidence

Six-and-a-half years later, Malina described the assault in the Village Voice. “The stage was very crowded, there was hardly any room to dance, when this group grabbed me in the middle of the crowd,” she told Ross Wetzsteon. “They began to fight among each other, and in fighting to get at me they hurt me beyond my capacity to either yield or resist. Hundreds of people surround us, but the crowd is oblivious. I was no longer addressing them. They were only addressing each other, and I was their quarry.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 2002