Kusama turned nude protest into a recurring political-performance form.

Evidence

The following week, Kusama struck again. Once more, she made the Times: “Four persons stripped off their clothes on Reade Street near Lower Broadway yesterday and handed out copies of an ‘open letter’ to President-elect Richard M. Nixon that said that ‘anatomic explosions are better than atomic explosions.’” Kusama staged one more anatomic explosion that month on the subway and included another at a gay wedding she officiated in Central Park, using the Manhattan phone book in place of a bible. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1337

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s material-conditions frame: Kusama’s cheap, illegal, street-level performance art as a product of a specific moment — pairs with the chapter’s gentrification thesis about art density.