Late-1960s performance venues were improvised from converted raw garage spaces

Evidence

The same weekend that Kusama performed at Cooper Square and Nitsch graced the Cinematheque, Richard Schechner took possession of the garage down the block at 33 Wooster Street. Along with his young acolytes, he undertook to scrub the oil-saturated floor, cover it with carpet remnants, whitewash the grimy cinderblock walls, and construct rude wooden platforms. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1192

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s core question: cheap rent and raw spaces (a converted garage) as material conditions enabling avant-garde production. Compare to the Cooper Square and living-room venues elsewhere in the book.