Illegal live-work lofts enabled experimental performance art genres in SoHo

Evidence

Presented in the artist’s (illegal) living loft, Baby Blood was reminiscent of Jim Dine’s Car Crash, at once a private psychodrama—in which Wilson served as his own shaman, acting out or exorcizing a personal trauma—and a public ritual. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1116

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s thesis that illegality (cheap space outside zoning) was a material precondition for avant-garde production — links to the bedroom-issue frame that spaces themselves underwrite art.