:: Amy Shapiro :: CURATION

Curation

September 25, 1999	Make 42nd Street Dirty Again 111 W, 42nd Street New York	more >>
April 13, 1998	Cyber Recycling Sandbox Magazine Web Release Event The Piano Store 158 Ludow Street New York	more >>
April 8, 1995	The Deviant Playground CSV Cultural Center New York
December 6, 1994	The Eternal Flame Collective Unconsious, Avenue B New York	more >>

Press Release - Make 42nd Street Dirty Again

West 42nd Street has been known worldwide for generations as a decadent Mecca. Recently, Disney in cooperation with Mayor Rudolph Guliani, has "cleaned up" the area. Many of the adult theaters, clubs with live shows, and bookstores which were a fixture of the New York sub-culture have disappeared forever.

On September 25th over 40 artists will celebrate the history of 42nd Street. Sexual themes from past decades all the way back to Burlesque will be represented. We will offer peep shows, fetish art, live body painting, and presentations covering Mae West to the Sex Workers Rights Movement.

A huge pile of dirt will be the centerpiece of the show. Come prepared to play and dance in the dirt and literally make 42nd Street dirty again.

Please join us in this last gasp for what is a soon to be lost cultural phenomenon. Saturday September 25th, 111 West 42nd Street 9pm - 2am.

Tara Ball - Creep Show

The Baroness - Vacu Suck

Moire Kramer - Live Casting

The Imprints -
The Girls from Amsterdam

H. Finn - Gagged

These cards were passed out to the audience throughout the evening by a gagged performer

Fred Hatt - Naked Rainbow Bomb
with Sue Doe, Christine Castillo & Arien Electra

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Sandbox Webzine Release Event
April 13, 1998

I filled the club with old discarded computers, monitors and printers and then made available art supplies and tools for dismantling the machinery in hopes that the audience would play and create from the cyber trash. Instead it became a riotous frenzy of destruction. I underestimated the anger and frustration that the public feels for technology. It was shocking how violent this event became.

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The Etermal Flame

The Collective Unconscious, December 6, 1994
An interactive performance art and installation event based on the theme of Fire

David Henry Brown Jr.

Amy Shapiro preparing Oliver Wyman for the Pinata hitting

Spinner spinning light sticks

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