Facial Insufficiency: Selective Enforcement of the 1845 Mask Law

Writing
Written by L.M. Bogad

First Amendment Area“Facial Insufficiency: Political Street Performance In New York City and the Selective Enforcement of the 1845 Mask Law,”in TDR:  The Drama Review, 47: 4 (Winter 2003): 75-84.When the Giuliani Administration dusts off a law from 1845 to start arresting creative activists for wearing masks in their street theatre, the resultant legal struggle raises larger questions about the right to peaceable assembly and the increasing privatization and regulation of public space.

L.M. Bogad

Bogad writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Agit-Pop, and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Laboratory, and a co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.

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