(2005-05-31) Passenger Liberation Front

The wedding is the latest in a chain of BART (Mass Transit) interventions thrown by a loosely organized group of East Bay artists and activists united under the tongue-in-cheek moniker of the Passenger Liberation Front. The happenings belong to the same art-as-activism family as ReclaimTheStreets, which stops traffic for street parties, or the Situationists, a group of 1960s artists and activists who sought to alter people's perceptions of the modern city. The NycClubKids, who held dance parties in subways and fast-food chains in the late 1980s, may also have inspired a prior Passenger Liberation Front event, an '80s dance party held in March. Reminds me of 2004-09-03-ThackaraStreetPerformance.