Today's '9 Chickweeed Lane' Classic Comic Strip
Was about avant garde musician Charlotte Moorman, although she was not named. I vaguely remembered the story which, in my case, happened when I was in middle school. Moorman achieved notoriety in 1964 when:
Charlotte tells the story of the 1964 New City performance of Nam June Paik's piece, 'the Opera Sextronic'. The police interrupted the performance and arrested Charlotte. Her trial led to an opening up of censorship in the arts.
The video is one section of the work by Fred Stern, "Charlotte Morman and the New York Avante Garde" by Fred Stern. It was filmed in 1980 under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The video includes a still photo of her topless performance, but it is mostly her recounting the story in an interview.
youtube.com/watch?v=B2xU4Arb8FI
gocomics.com/9-chickweed-lane-classics/2021/04/03
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Moorman
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