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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Saturday, November 2, 2013
“Shak-Tea Party” co-hosted by Go! Push Pops and A Feminist Tea Party: Sunday, November 10, 3-6pm
Sunday November 10th 3-6pm Go! Push Pops and A Feminist Tea Party will co-host a Shak-Tea Party, an esoteric gathering and skill-share honoring the feminine principle. Light snacks and tea served, white tantric meditation, discussion of herbalism/foraging, special guests and circle work. Free and open to the public. BUSHWICK DAILY PRESS OF THE SHOW LISTED ONART HAPS "MUST SEE" in ART FAG CITY
Nu Age Hustle is a group show featuring 9 artists working in video, fabric, installation and performance. Drawing equally from elements of “New Age” and Pop culture (hip hop, fashion, and e-commerce) these artists explore ritual, earth and sky awareness, embodiment and commodification at the increasingly blurred boundary of the spiritual and the secular. Many adopting their own body as a site of resistance and agent of performative praxis, Nu Age Hustle is a show highlighting artists as global citizens and consciousness shifters. Speaking truth to power in their own unique idioms, these works pinpoint and shift social loci toward interdymanic and cosmic heights. John Miller Chernoff, a scholar of African aesthetics of social action, has broadly defined culture as “overtly musical,” in nature. For Chernoff culture is “a dynamic style or organization through ‘various mediators,’” and for these artist scavengers of it, it is ever the bright, fungible horizon. As border crossers and at times, futuristic agents of cultural upheaval, the artists of Nu Age Hustle recalibrate distinctive elements mediating contemporary daily living in ways radically experiential and spiritually raw. at "Nu Age Hustle" show @MOMENTA ART
56 BOGART STREET
Stay tuned!! for our AIOP 500,000 performance documentation....soon will be publish at
POSTURE MAGAZINE and AIOP Art in Odd Places Website
Thanks to Megan Welch, Minomox and AIOP Team!!
pic by Minomox
Monday, October 7, 2013
500,000 is a Go! Push Pop performance in collaboration with Megan Welch exposing inter-military rape in the context of transnational feminism. “500,000” refers to the number of women sexually assaulted within the ranks of the U.S. Military. Inspired by Kirby Dick’s award-winning documentary Invisible War, Go! Push Pops is taking the U.S. Military’s longstanding war against women to task from the inside out. Dressed in the likeness of gender-bending officers, Go! Push Pops will lead a processional along 14th Street protesting in our embodied feminist idiom the U.S. Military’s longstanding sexually motivated violence against women.
Date
October 19 4:00 – 7:00
Time • Duration • Location
Starting at 14th Street and Third Avenue and ending at 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, in front of the Salvation Army, 120 West 14th Street.
Please check out AIOP website to see all artist and more INFO
We had the pleasure to talk about our mission and performance at the Bronx Museum this past Friday Sept 6th at BRONX NET TV.ORG CHECK IT OUT!!
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
QUEEN$ DOMIN8TiN
Go! Push Pops in Collaboration withUntitled Queen
First Fridays! at the BRONX Museum
1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY
September 6th, 2013
6-10pm
QUEEN$ DOMIN8TiN, a Go! Push Pop project in collaboration with Untitled Queen, is a performance loosely based on Egyptian queen mythology, pop culture and drag accelerating our current global shift toward enhanced moon energy and the Divine Feminine. As a performative, neo-shamanic ritual, QUEEN$ DOMIN8TiN celebratesthe queer body as transcendent/shape-shifter/seer/healer for the Nu Age.
For more info regarding the event, check out the Museum Website:
When Go! Push Pops met Nyssa Frank at the Living Gallery to pick up the keys for use of the space during our month long Warrior Goddess Workshop, the first few words out of Push Pop co-leader Diamond’s mouth at the time were,
“A year of planning leading up to this and it all flew by so fast. I kept thinking I would really be a Goddess by the time this workshop rolled around – but I’m not so sure.”
Nyssa replied, “You are definitely a Goddess.”
Could it be? What does it mean to embody the Goddess and how do we get there physically, emotionally, and spiritually? How do we burn away eons of patriarchal residual – the self-loathing, objectification and physical/emotional violence which ensued for all peoples during the dark Piscean age of war and pillage on this earth now past? When do we commit to being present, seeing reality clearly and letting the heart lead us back to a past-present-futurity in which women, who by yogic science possess sixteen times the cosmic primordial creative energy of men (in order to carry new life) will celebrate and accept their own beauty and power?
Before Nicolas Bourriaud wrapped up social practice in all his constipated white male European intellectual fantasies, feminist artists were doing social practice and they were doing it better. They were doing it fueled by a lot less money and hype than say, Tino Sehgal getting six figures to turn the Guggenheim into a people petting zoo for alienated folks or Rirkrit opening a soup kitchen for the culturally-emaciated Art elite. They were doing it like Suzanne Lacy making “art” with LAPD to bring hidden experiences of rape into the media domain and change public policy. They were doing it like Jane Dickson’s collaboratory cardboard “City Maze” at Fashion Moda in 1980, a site most well known and historicized for the contributions of the male artists involved. As Jane recalled at a panel this past winter at the Bronx Documentary Center, it was the first time since 1980 she had been asked to speak about her work at Fashion Moda because it was the first panel scheduled during a period when the men had something better to do.
Go! Push Pops
Warrior Goddess
Final Workshop & Closing Party
A Community Event
FREE & Open to the Public
Saturday MAY 25th
4-8 pm
Empowering Women Through
Yoga, Hip Hop & Feminism
FREESTylin’ with BoomBoxBoy
Women Kicking ASS
BYO Drinks + EATS (Backyard Grill out!!)
the Living Gallery
1094 Broadway, Bushwick, Brooklyn
http://www.the-living-gallery.com/
Warrior Goddess Workshop PROMO
Go! Push Pops Learn How to KICK ASS during Tanto BinEverett's Martial Arts Workshop
This project is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
Monday, May 6, 2013
Here documentation of our first day of WARRIOR GODDESS WORKSHOP
thanks to The Living Gallery and
BAC Brooklyn Arts Council
WELCOME!!
NEXT SATURDAY.....ALL MAY
Thursday, April 25, 2013
BROOKLYN MUSEUM BLOCK WATCHING & BAD BITCHES PRESS
