Police and decency groups surveilled avant-garde performance audiences

Evidence

The police had disrupted a follow-up London presentation and, according to Schneemann, the New York audience was salted with police informants and spies from “moral decency” groups. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 593

Categorization

• XREF: Surveillance of bohemian events as a material condition shaping the scene — reinforces the reader’s ‘illegality as enabler’ framing.