Desacralize

If whiteness bespoke purity and godliness, then poor white trash implied an ungodly, desacralized, polluted whiteness.

Still, certain programmatic commitments [of avant-garde art] can be identified: championing the volatile eventness of corporeal performances, […] consciously embracing the desacralizing and subversive, and disrupting conventional norms by placing the strange and unexpected in otherwise banal places.