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Land on the Moon trough L train, September 11th

THE PUSH POPS LANDED ON THE MOON

For a "new state of consciousness"...

Meet you on the Moon....
September 11 at 11pm L Train from 8av

The Push Pops Land on the Moon, The Push Pop Collective’s third interdisciplinary performance, will take place in two parts on September 11, 2010. Through a ritual reclaiming of the universal territory known as the moon, the Push Pops sing in English, Spanish and Russian, erasing history and erecting a new state of consciousness as they become the very first human beings to land and discover this unique and mysterious lunar terrain. Fugitives of gravity, The Push Pops land on the moon wielding a hybrid red white and blue flag, a diamond-shaped amalgam of the flags of their respective countries of

origin - Russia, Chile and the United States. The Push Pops Land on the Moon in a gesture of co-ownership, co-authorship and radical multiplicity. Landing in tandem to footage of Armstrong's fictitious voyage, the Push Pop's skirt media dissolution, projecting a powerful neo-narrative onto a cross cultural blind spot. Characteristically utopic and feminist, this project erects a matrix of important questions concerning the content of border zones, behaviors, bodies and territories in space. Who sings the nation state? Who sings the universe? Who sings the moon? Following the planting of their flag the

Push Pops zoom back to earth for a ceremonial parade through the New York City subway system. Please join the Push Pops on September 11th at 11pm when they will take the L train from 8th Ave. in Manhattan to Brooklyn, infinity, and beyond!

AEROBIC UTOPIA... BAGEL BUNS. FIGMENT NYC2010

Proselytizing to their bewildered public about a carb-free, carefree, guilt-free Aerobic Utopia, during the Figment arts festival on Governor’s Island the Push Pops performed at the foot of a massive bagel hill with embedded 2-channel video installation featuring the original Buns of Steel Series. Over the racket of Buns of Steel® could be heard a doctored soundtrack including Bjork, MIA, Rhianna, Janet Jackson and the Push Pops themselves. For three 8-hour sessions, the Push Pops – renamed Crystal, Sapphire and Diamond - perfected their desultory workout on a constructed beach tableau complete with a custom umbrella and ice cold refreshments from Aerobic Utopia’s fictive sponsor, America’s No. 1 Fitness beverage, Crystal Light.

As witness to the Push Pops aerobic psychomachy, viewers were accosted by the jocular cries of an anti-consumerist ritual obscured by retro infomercial style nutrition and exercise jargon. Bagels! Bagel Buns! You’re Almost There! This is the first day of a whole new you! This is not a diet this is lifestyle! Exercise is not a sin!... went the Push Pop’s radical word salad. A rotating Nazi drill sergeant style “Aerobitician on Duty” led the group, interspersing her commands with deadpan readings from glossy celebrity fitness manuals (The Nucleus of my figure is my stomach – I have a flat and tight tummy. I stay away from anything with the word cream in it. Just substitute the word fat for cream - ice fat, fat cheese, whipped fat - and giving it up will be quite easy!) and fiercely delivered public confessionals (We were in love! Raise your hand if you ate fruit for breakfast? I am not my anxiety!)

On the third day, with thighs soar as hell and throats raw from polemicizing, the Push Pops ceremoniously covered the bagel hill during the onset of storm, switched on the megaphone siren and led a gaggle of screaming little girls around the hill in hysterical circles yelling “Bagels! No more bagels!” With Gav Baby close behind on the camera, the Push Pops spontaneously took their Utopia on foot to festival goers. “Aerobic Utopia Emigration” began with an impromptu jog around the island, greeting passersby with loud calls of protest, anger, heresy, waving the handmade sequin Bagel Bun flag high, all candy colored lycra and feminist joie de vivre.

“FIGMENTNYC2010.”

    

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AEROBIC UTOPIA, BAGEL BUNS!!!
THE PUSH POPS ON DUTY AT FIGMENTS FESTIVAL, 
GOVERNOR'S ISLAND NYC JUNE 2010

 Call for participants for the Push Pop Collective’s “Aerobic Utopia” performance at Figment, Governor’s Island June 11, 12, and 13.  

    Part therapeutic shout-out, part anti-consumerist ritual, part feminist music video and all Utopia! Join members of the all-female Push Pop Collective as we create a collective discursive space; mobilizing against Western liberal ideology that posits femaleness as possessively individual and perpetually consumer.  Squat, kick, sing and pummel your way through mounds of day-old bagels and self-loathing, grooving to the original Buns of Steel Series.

Leotards, Day-Glo, LA Gear and barrel bangs highly encouraged. Consult with our Aerobitician on duty about your healthcare regimen or enjoy an ice cold glass of Crystal Light for less than a dollar! Come out and shout out – to Bagel Buns!

“FIGMENTNYC2010” June 11-13, 2010 " Aerobic Utopia, Bagel Buns"

The Push Pops Collective presents "AEROBIC UTOPIA – BAGEL BUNS".

At the onset of another hot and sticky New York summer, The Push Pops Collective will give a two-day presentation on the best way to cut carbs and get those tight buns for the bikini season!  Powered by the proven methodology of the Buns of Steel series, The Push Pops will provide free personal training and diet advice to Figment participants.  As part of Aerobic Utopia, The Push Pops will construct a giant pile of day-old bagels and rolls, collected in the weeks leading to Figment.  Next to this symbolic victory hill, brightly clad Push Pops will lead several aerobic sessions to celebrate triumph over food addictions and unhealthy consumerist tendencies.  The Bagel Hill will also raise awareness for the daily food waste occurring in this city.  

" T A P E D "

In their 2010 performance Taped, the Push Pops make a surprise visit to Portia Munson’s Pink Project, an arrangement of 2,000 pink objects Munson first exhibited during the New Museum's Bad Girls show organized by Marcia Tucker in 1994.

 

The performance began with a raucously spirited procession from the Push Pop Headquarters to PPOW Gallery in Chelsea. Dressed in hot pink and orange, the collective proceeded West, waving a flag and singing their characteristically oblique idiom. Confronted with Munson’s monumental piece, the Push Pops rolled around the periphery of the work bound together by pink and orange masking tape. While Munson’s piece makes an appropriately 3^rd wave subversive gesture - exposing a kind of hyper feminine excess, deifying the calcified remains of the fetishized pink lot – the Push Pop’s intervention marks an important instance of reactivation of Munson’s original concern. Twirling in technicolor motion and reminiscent of a spring bouquet, popsicles or music box dolls, the Push Pops resemble the plasticity and stasis of the pink products, meanwhile, assert a new paradigm of bodily independence through their implacable physicality and equivocal cries. The Push Pops are taped, bound, tied, tethered… but only to one another.

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