If Peepshow—a party with an amped-up sex drive mingling among art installations and music, sited in a quirky venue—evokes memories of the late, great Artists & Models parties of yesteryear, that is certainly by design. Squeaky Wheel, in its great wisdom, has given us a week to recover from Valentine’s Day’s saccharine pastiches before inviting us to a more satisfying exploration of the species’ number one obsessions: love, sex and parties. Seventeen art installations will reside in rooms on the eighth floor of the fabled—and kind of spooky—Hotel Lenox. Downstairs, film and video screenings will share the banquet room with the Stripteasers and area DJs, while the lobby will host live music by David Kane, Van Taylor’s Taylor Made Jazz and the Paul Kozlowski Trio. There will be a silent auction of works from area artists and love-themed gift baskets, as well as a cash bar. Featured installation artists include Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo, whose performance piece involves a man, a woman, a suitcase, a monitor and a pair of scissors (pictured); Warren Quigley, whose work focuses on motels; and Sean Hyoung-Kim, whose video work makes use of water and umbrellas to explore female symbols. All proceeds benefit Squeaky Wheel, the city’s bastion for independent media-making.

Saturday, February 25 from 8pm-2am. Hotel Lenox, 140 North St. (884-7172).

$12 pre-sale; $15 at the door.