Avant-garde destruction theater coincided with the 1968 electoral challenge.

Evidence

March 16, the same day that Nitsch’s O.M. theater gave its third performance at the Cinematheque, Senator Robert F. Kennedy declared his candidacy from the Senate Caucus Room, thus joining Senator Eugene McCarthy as a challenger to the sitting president. … We will create our own reality. And we will not accept the false theater of the Death Convention. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1197

Categorization

• XREF: The simultaneity of Kennedy’s candidacy and the destruction-art scene is a date-level fact the reader can use to fix the milieu’s timeline.