June 7ths
Antipode: December 7ths 6/7/1886 (Chicago) (Thomas Sullivan) Attended trial proceedings. Spies, Parsons, and others—accused men who look ordinary enough in daylight. Prosecutor: “foreign anarchism”, defense–workers’ rights. Truth lies somewhere between rhetoric. Murphy caught reading a labor pamphlet during lunch break. Dismissed on the spot. Reading becomes subversive. Barber on State Street: shares neighborhood gossip—which families receive “radical” newspapers, who attends suspicious meetings. The city is a “nervous system” of informants and suspicions. Everyone watching everyone else. 6/7/1989 (Keith Haring Journal) “Had lunch with Yoko and Sam Havadtoy and then went shopping for a vase for her performance tonight....We went to see an incredible installation by Nam Jun Paik at the MoMA of Paris. It's amazing what images he gets out of a TV screen and the speed with which they change. This is what television as an art form is all about....” [From the advent of...
