SAN FRANCISCO AND SEATTLE.- NO LIVE GIRLS presents Sexuality, Voyeurism, Eroticism & Gender in Contemporary Video Art February 7- 21 at The Lusty Lady, Seattle (1315 1st Avenue), February 14 - 28 at The Lusty Lady, San Francisco (1033 Kearny Street). Special screening party hosted by Good Vibrations February 18, 8-10pm (1210 Valencia St., San Francisco). This February, No Live Girls will present its long-awaited program of art videos in peep booths at The Lusty Lady, the famous adult entertainment establishment located in San Francisco and Seattle. Peepshow 28 will feature 64 short videos by emerging to established artists that explore issues of sexuality, voyeurism, eroticism and gender. Peepshow 28 will run on channel 28 in existing peep booths at each Lusty Lady venue. To preserve the authentic "peep" experience, the viewer enters the dark booth alone, sits in front of the monitor and activates the videos with quarters or dollars. According to Linda Ganjian, one of the project's coordinators, "Showing the videos in the privacy of actual booths mixed among the standard erotic entertainment was an essential aspect of the event's conception. We were interested in exploring the contexts in which people traditionally experience both art and pornography, and the way that context affects the viewing experience. We were also intrigued by the idea that showing the work in this context would allow a regular "adult" patron to have a chance encounter with art and open barriers to the art-viewing public, who might otherwise feel shy about patronizing adult entertainment establishments." The program will feature work by Canadian director Atom Egoyan and legendary porn star Annie Sprinkle, as well as exciting new videos by artists from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Europe, Iceland and Thailand. Much of the work enters into a playful dialogue with pornography, traditional ideas of desire, repulsion, and seduction. Through humor, Michael Shaowanasai's Exotix 101 investigates the stereotype of the "exotic" Asian while alluding to the realities of Thailand's sex industry as it is fueled by foreign tourism. In Scrub, Andrew Takeuchi and Robert Schmidt play with the traditional media image of woman as homemaker and sexual object. Rosalie Tsoo takes her camera to the streets in Show World and interviews the public about their intimate desires as they pass by a New York City peep booth marquee in the Times Square area. The videos were selected from over 300 works submitted in response to an open call posted on the Internet. Peepshow 28 was conceived and curated by New York-based artists and curators Linda Ganjian, Kristine Marx, Jean-Paul Maitinsky, Jillian Mcdonald, Saul Robbins and Diana Schlesinger, who collectively manage the project under the name No Live Girls. A common aphorism within the adult entertainment world, the group chose the name because they felt it accurately reflected the project's political and conceptual context, including the emergence of video as a substitute for live performers. The project originated from a desire to find an exhibition space whose history and politics contributed to the dialogue between art and adult videos. It gained momentum in response to the changes in Times Square, in particular our former Mayor Giuliani's 60/40 rezoning laws that had opened Show World the well know adult entertainment venue to art and theater projects. When the legendary Lusty Lady offered their participation, No Live Girls decided to take the project to the West Coast. Over the past 25 years, The Lusty Lady has participated in many joint projects with the cultural centers that shape its neighborhood. In 1997, it became the first adult entertainment establishment with unionized dancers.