The Dirty Show
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The brainchild of former punk musician and publisher Jerry Vile and artist and writer Jeremy Harvey, The Dirty Show has been titillating pervs in Detroit for years. The celebration of erotic art and performance hit the road for the first time in late October, taking over the Little Haiti rock venue Churchill's for a weekend thanks to the initiative of South Florida artist Anthony Mangicapra. Artists from South Florida and Detroit were invited to participate, and their only directive was to make it dirty. Motor City icons Glenn Barr and Niagara made sexy contributions, as well as local talents including Tim McGrath, the team of Phil Carlucci and Rob Soli, and Joe Raymond, whose work Mangicapra describes as "really, really obscene." Abusement Park Entertainment provided the live performers, who put on an S&M/bondage show and brought the burlesque dancers, while Mangicapra and collaborator Jasper Delani created a multimedia presentation featuring VCRs loaded with porn and fed through a Mackie mixer and recordings of prostitutes from the 1950s. The Dirty Show, which had been turned away from the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale and the Coral Springs Museum of Art, found a perfect home at Churchill's. "It's a gross place, man, it really is," Mangicapra says with affection.
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