A raging global pandemic handled inadequately and indifferently by the Republican-led US federal government, with Dr. Anthony Fauci in a featured role; an antiracist uprising in response to police brutality; a resurgent political Right fomenting and stoking culture wars; activists’ demands for a diverse and equitable art world; increasing fiscal precarity for small, innovative live art spaces; a looming recession; and an escalating housing crisis fueled by accelerating income inequality: welcome to Los Angeles between 1989 and 1993. In this period, AIDS became the leading cause of death for US men ages 25–44; ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)/LA called public health infrastructure to account and successfully fought for an AIDS ward at Los Angeles County Hospital. A widely circulated video of Los Angeles Police Department officers viciously beating Black motorist Rodney King, and their subsequent acquittal of criminal charges by a suburban jury, ignited five days of antiracist rebellion. The rising number of unhoused people in Los Angeles was becoming difficult to ignore, though not for the city's, state's, or federal government's lack of trying. “Multiculturalism” became a widely embraced—if sometimes cynically deployed—aesthetic and programming imperative.

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有趣时代的反公共物品：1989-1993 年公路表演空间舞台上的过渡主体

共和党领导的美国联邦政府对肆虐的全球流行病处理不当和漠不关心，安东尼·福奇博士担任主角；针对警察暴行的反种族主义起义；复兴的政治右翼煽动和煽动文化战争；活动家对多元化和公平的艺术世界的要求；增加小型创新现场艺术空间的财政不稳定性；迫在眉睫的衰退；以及因收入不平等加剧而不断升级的住房危机：欢迎在 1989 年至 1993 年间来到洛杉矶。在此期间，艾滋病成为美国 25 至 44 岁男性死亡的主要原因；ACT UP（释放力量的艾滋病联盟）/洛杉矶呼吁公共卫生基础设施负责并成功争取在洛杉矶县医院的艾滋病病房。一段广为流传的洛杉矶警察局官员恶毒殴打黑人司机罗德尼·金的视频，以及随后郊区陪审团对他们的刑事指控无罪释放，引发了为期五天的反种族主义叛乱。洛杉矶越来越多的无家可归者变得难以忽视，尽管这不是因为该市、州或联邦政府缺乏尝试。“多元文化主义”成为一种被广泛接受的——如果有时是玩世不恭的——美学和编程的必要性。