Little Havana Heights

The screen switched to a YouTube snippet featuring an obese snaggletoothed black man wearing tighty whiteys and scratching his bare midriff while moaning that a bout of chicken pox was driving him mad.

The performers waded into the audience with magic markers, contaminating each other and the public with a red rash, hitting home hard with the premise behind the audacious Bug Chasers.

One freaky health seminar

Details

Contemporanea Fine Arts, 1555 SW 8th St, Miami; 305-642-3080. 801 Projects, 801 SW 3rd Ave, Miami; 786-399-7375, www.myspace.com/801projects, www.camposition.org. Open studios, through July 3, by appointment.

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At the end of the performance, Campos asked audience members to whip out their raffle tickets to see who had won.

Mine read "poz" (as in HIV-positive), leaving my head spinning with an overdose of stimuli, yet echoing how fulfilling my two-night foray into alternative Little Havana had been.