Go!PushPops: February 2012

Mission Statement

The Push Pops are a radical, transnational queer feminist art collective. Geared toward engendering ‘Embodied Feminism,’ Go! Push Pops employs the female body – that which is bound to a cross-cultural language of desire, signification and power – in tactical, ideological strategy. Go! Push Pops utilize gesture, exclamation and popular idiom to embody a new age discursive physicality interfacing with the ancient archetypal realm. Neo-Dada, Fluxist and Feminist, their performance work posits the body as a danger to the operation of reason and patriarchal economy of lack. A wild leap, an elusive slogan, a paroxysm of the flesh – The Push Pops reinscribe the body through participatory ritual, spontaneous performance and interactive multi-media installation.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Finally!!

The Push Pops Collective is pleased to announce our last two videos!!

GIRLESQUE and APOCADOODLELYPSE are up ONLINE!!

CHECK THEM UP ON YOUTUBE!!

And also we would like to express special thanks to Bryn McConnell and Irvin Morazan for collaborating with us and Jong Oh and Maria Jose Duran for helping us documenting the performances.

GIRLESQUE A Collaboration with Bryn McConnell (OFFICIAL TEXT WILL COME UP SOON)
during the closing reception of LOOKED
Re: Self-reflection/refraction/reflexion
Solo Show of paintings by Bryn McConnell
February 2, 2012, Frontrunner Gallery

A collaboration with performance artist and urban Shaman Irvin Morazan, Go! Push Pops Apocadoodlelypse took place in the streets of Bedstuy, Brooklyn on December 9^th, 2011 outside Tompkins Projects. A post-apocalyptic vignette, Apocadoodlelypse addresses the dichotomous conditions of nature/culture, biology/technology and the metaphysical dimensions of raw animality. As part hyena, part mutated Doodle-bred play toys, the Push Pops achieve high states of spiritual alchemy through physical aggression as they maneuver in and out of Morazan’s Shamanistic spells.

Friday, February 3, 2012

Back by popular demand, Go! Push Pops we will perform a remix of our 'Bulimic Flow' Yoga Hip Hop Fusion feat. TLC'scrazysexycool as a looped mantra. Bulimic Flow is a series of asanas and rare dance moves (Lil B’s Cookin’ up references the preparation of crack cocaine) to heal the 3rd Chakra, the spiritual seat of personal power.

Saturday, February 11th at 4pm

C24 Gallery 514 West 24th St. Chelsea

Part of Amy Smith-Stewart's exhibition CAMPAIGN

http://www.c24gallery.com/

http://www.smith-stewart.com/main.html

Also, Check out THE PUSH POPS 'Bulimic Flow' on Artnet TV! A video about the opening of CAMPAIGN

Artnet TV: Campaign at C24 Gallery from Stephanie Szerlip on Vimeo.