NYC ♥ NYC: Push Pops "Rainbagladybow" for Art in Odd Places F...

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A PROJECT FOR SUMMER 2012

Please join the Push Pop in our fundraising effort for the Oral History of Ice Cream. Our largest project to date, The Push Pop Collective’s 'Oral History of Ice Cream’ is a mobile, interdisciplinary performative work. Driving across the United States in a customized ice cream truck the Push Pops will provide free ice cream to residents of New Orleans, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle as they collect an audio archive of American ice cream stories during the summer of 2012. The trip will culminate in a workshop at Reel Grrls Seattle, a non-profit for empowering young women through media production.

We are proud to announce that our recent fiscal sponsorship by the New York Foundation for the Arts makes your donation to the project fully tax deductible.

Help make The Push Pop’s Oral History of Ice Cream a utopian reality by donating online through our Artspire profile with NYFA.

For more details about the project and how to contribute today, checkout:

Oral History of Ice Cream on ARTSPIRE

We are also accepting donations through Indiegogo, check out the additional link below Thanks!

Indiegogo.com/Go-Push-Pops

CHECK OUT VIDEO TRAILER:

ORAL HISTORY OF ICE CREAM TEST RUN IN BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN

Rainbagladybow, a performance pilgrimage from the East River to the Hudson for Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL, is a three-tiered woman chorus exploring the necessity of magic, whimsy and ritual under the word salad banners of the trash adorned urban spiritual elite. Carrying East River Holy Water they will dump ceremoniously in the Hudson, The Push Pops will travel along Manhattan’s 14^th st. a bustling place of commerce burying a historical canal once a rich source of natural resources. Navigating glitter trash and the porous boundaries of the commercial and chaste, secular and religious, the intelligible an unintelligible, the Push Pops dawn ribbons, coconut water bottles and otherwise odd baubles like precious totems. Part streetside shrine, gypsy caravan and consumer spectacle…Rainbagladybow stakes a proud claim in the power of ethereal sludge.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 8TH

11AM TO 3PM FROM THE HUDSON TO THE EAST RIVER

ALONG 14ST, MANHATTAN

The Push Pops are pleased to share online our two most recent performative video sculptures ’Block Watching’ and 'Imaginary Picnic'

Check them out!!

Block watching

Imaginary picnic

The Push Pops, an all female artist collective host…

Hipster Speed Dating!

Put your fancy shoes on and cross the bridge as you join the Push Pops at Local Project near PS1 in Long Island City on Saturday July 16th, 2011. Recruiting hipsters of all shapes and sexual orientations to LIC's most radical underground gallery, the Pops revamp an old mating classic with a darkly twist. A d.i.y. Reality Television show broadcast outside the LP space in real time, Hipster Speed Dating is a subversive feast for the senses and provocative social experiment you won't want to write home about.

Details

Saturday July 16th, 6-10pm at Local Project

6:15-7pm Contestant Orientation*

All Hipster Speed Dating Contestants must arrive no later than 7:00pm

7-8pm Hipster Speed Dating! Broadcast LIVE outside Local Project

8:30pm After Party featuring all girl rapper trio ZEBRA BABY!!! Yo Wut up.

Please R.S.V.P. gopushpops@gmail.com to confirm your registration as a speed dating contestant, hurry space is limited!

Local Project

45-10 Davis Street

Long Island City, NY 11101

http://www.localproject.org/

http://www.myspace.com/zebrababys

Cold Womb featuring recent work by the Push Pop Collective will open at Local Project this Saturday July 2 at 7pm. In this unique exhibition, the Push Pops will exhibit for the very first time footage from their two most recent performative sculptures ’Block Watching’ and ’Imaginary Picnic’ as a 5-channel installation alongside physical relics and video documentation of selected past works. Free limited edition posters of all past projects will be available at the opening on a first come first serve basis. And don’t miss the secret interactive community event hosted by the Push Pops on July 16th (more details to come soon)!

Situated adjacent to the PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Cold Womb’s opening party corresponds with PS1’s very first Warm-Up of the season. Shake it off and jerk it cuz we got drinks, fierce ladies, and a DJ all day long!

Cold Womb

July 2-16, 2011

Open: Thursday to Sunday 4-8pm

Opening Party Sat. July 2, 7pm

Community Secret Event Sat. July 16, 7pm

at Local Project

45-10 Davis St.

Long Island City, Queens

www.localproject.org/

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Imaginary Picnic was the Push Pop’s second official performative installation for the Figment Festival on Governor's Island. A Victorian themed outdoor tea party with liberal helpings of drama, magic and Dyonisian madness, Imaginary Picnic was a participatory emotional outward bound nestled under a big friendly tree. Surrounded by cardboard ice cream cones and odd shaped floating surrealist matter, Mistresses Minty, Pinky and Frosty read victoriously from artist manifestos of the early twentieth century to present including those of Dada, Surrealism, Neoism and Valerie Solanas’ S.C.U.M. among others. Knowledge is fuel and imagination is contagious suggests this cathartic spectacle in which The Pops guided visitors to reset their pleasure index and indulge in intellectual delicacies. A tree, a candy-coated rocking horse and three sassy tree-climbing orators helped wayward island goers plunge into our collective creative history and let their personality armor melt away.

TODAY LAST DAY!!!

SUNDAY JUNE 12

12 TO 5 PM

GO! PUSH POPS: IMAGINARY PICNIC

Come reset your pleasure index at Imaginary Picnic, the Push Pops' second official performative installation on Governor's Island. A Victorian themed outdoor tea time with liberal helpings of drama, magic and Dyonisian madness in a participatory emotional 'outward bound' nestled under a big friendly tree. Food is love and imagination is contagious suggests this cathartic spectacle in which Mistresses Minty, Pinky and Frosty guide visitors to indulge in invisible delicacies and let their personality armor melt away.

FIGMENT is an explosion of creative energy. It’s a free, annual celebration of participatory art and culture where everything is possible. For one weekend each summer, it transforms Governors Island into a large-scale collaborative artwork – and then it’s gone.

Governors Island, NYC… a free, short ferry-ride from lower Manhattan and Brooklyn!

The Push Pops open the summer season 2011 with BLOCK WATCHING!!!!!

at BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS 2011

Please join The Push Pops for their remix of Luis Gispert's Block Watching (2002) this time with more girls, more bling and a jewelry liquidation sale at half time! in "Meet Me at the Market" for Bushwick Open Studios: Sunday June 5th, 2:00 pm at

110 Moore St, Brooklyn.

about BLOCK WATCHING (2002)

Gispert’s cheerleader series of lush, color photographs depicting cheerleaders accessorized with the hip hop gold chains and jewelry, first brought him to the art world’s attention. Although this series was perceived as a reference to popular culture and cultural identity, Gispert approached the subject from the perspective of Baroque religious paintings depicting levitating saints at moments of epiphany and the conventions of sports photography, which established the iconic image of the sports hero in mid air. The cheerleader photographs were achieved with cinematic techniques and methods to produce special effects, most notably the green-screen. Gispert used a long exposure to photograph his models suspended on wires in a chroma-key green room. In movies, actors play against the green background, which is typically superimposed onto another backdrop to complete the illusion. However, Gispert retained the green field to reveal the artifice.

full press release is below with all the info about the event and location:

"Meet Me at the Market" for Bushwick Open Studios June 4th and 5th 2011

The Moore Street market is located on 110 Moore Street in East Williamsburg

http://moorestreetretailmarket.com/

Part of Bushwick’s Open Studio Weekend - June 3rd, 4th and 5th 2011

Morning Coffee Opening, compliments of Bushwick’s own FARMCART, Saturday, June 4th 10:00 am – 11:00 am - Get a coffee and a map, and tour the historic market.

Using the Moore Street Market as muse, 7 artists-Liz Atzberger, Sharon Butler, Brece Honeycutt, Lars Kremer, Austin Thomas, Julie Torres and Audra Wolowiec with a special appearance by the Push Pops performing at 2:00pm of Sunday, June 5th-combine art and food for a series of weekend events!

Schedule of Events: Saturday, June 4th 10:00 am coffee and Bushwick Open Studio map pick-up ,12 noon free art class with Austin Thomas, find Brece Honeycutt in Stall #13 from 10 am - 2pm, and at 5:00pm Lars Kremer serves up snacks! Sunday, June 5th from 12 pm - 4 pm again you will find Brece Honeycutt in stall #13 knitting,

at 2:00 pm the Push Pops perform and Sharon Butler wraps it up at 4:00pm with a salon discussion on the economics of open studios.

Biergarten, sandwiches, coffee, sweets, and other treats all weekend by FARMCART - 12-8 pm Friday, 10-8 pm Saturday, 11-5 pm Sunday.

So meet us at the market!!

Moore Street Market

110 Moore Street (in the corners of Humboldt and Varet) - Bus/Train directions: Hopstop.com

Brooklyn, NY 11206-3301 - Phone number: (718) 384-137 - E-mail: moorestreetmarket@bedc.org

Also pocketutopia.com

Bushwick Open studios

The push pops will be in FIGMENTS ARTS FESTIVAL again!!!!

June 2011: WELCOME!!

Come reset your pleasure index at Imaginary Picnic, the Push Pops' second official performative installation on Governor?s Island. A Victorian themed outdoor tea time with liberal helpings of drama, magic and Dyonisian madness in a participatory emotional 'outward bound' nestled under a big friendly tree. Food is love and imagination is contagious suggests this cathartic spectacle in which Mistresses Minty, Pinky and Frosty guide visitors to indulge in invisible delicacies and let their personality armor melt away.

http://gopushpops.wikispaces.com/

FIGMENT NYC 2011

June 10 – 12, 2011
Governors Island, NYC

What:
FIGMENT is an explosion of creative energy. It’s a free, annual celebration of participatory art and culture where everything is possible. For one weekend each summer, it transforms Governors Island into a large-scale collaborative artwork – and then it’s gone.

When:
Friday, June 10 — 10AM – 4PM
Saturday, June 11 — 10AM – 6PM
Sunday, June 12 — 10AM – 6PM

Where:
Governors Island, NYC… a free, short ferry-ride from lower Manhattan and Brooklyn!

http://newyork.figmentproject.org/figment-nyc-2011/

THE PUSH POPS Trailer 3min, 2010 on Vimeo.

The next project is coming soon...the Push Pops 2011 will debut in Spring!!!

Go! Push Pops...GONE WILD: VIDEO

Push Pops Gone Wild

Trapped behind tacky animal print bed sheets in a symbolic pen visible only through small ripped holes, The Pops play dress up with female/animal archetypes: A drunken fox-hipster-sorority girl-artist lost in perpetual Spring Break. A Feminist warlord shooting vitriol through the tip of a mop. A Unicorn phone sex operator singing with a banana shoved down her throat. An angry bunny eating an entire cake as she reads angrily from ‘He’s Just Not that Into You.’ Vengeance, anger, distress and anxiety surged amidst broken domestic items, overturned living room furniture, decadent food, seasonal foliage and loads of animal kitsch. In the center, a glowing television loops a collage of imagery including clips from ‘Girls Gone Wild,’ animal sex, professional hair removal, amateur strippers, relaxation tapes and sissy nobby. Meanwhile on the other side of the curtain, master of the tidy kitchen and the smug voice of patriarchy: a handsome gentleman wielding a riding crop and a gaudy animal fur cap hurls his sexist jargon into the mix. Part ‘Theater of Cruelty’ part Brechtian ‘Learning Play,’ Push Pops Gone Wild is a platform for empathic learning. Throughout the 7-hour performance The Push Pops reach various points of internal combustion - erupting into catfights, crying, singing, chirping, growling, screeching. Possibilities of contact always in flux, mobile, electric, pluralities of identity emerge and destruct. Occasionally The Pops enter less abrasive territory – loudly plotting the feminist apocalypse in 2012 runs into merrily singing a few rounds of ‘In the Jungle.’ Each new vignette abruptly ruptured by the delirious, rising jouissance of the next improvisational incarnation. Occasionally, The Pops ear ringing antics push spectators into activity – throwing glitter, confetti and toy ponies through the looking hole, some even yelling back. Push Pops Gone Wild explores ‘play’ as a stimulator of the deterritorialization of bodies and representational codes.

Push Pops Gone Wild was held at 88 Starr St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn on November 14, 2010 as part of the Arts in Bushwick Beta Spaces Festival.

The Push Pops have gone wild!

Come see the world premier of video footage of GONE WILD, the Pops latest performance - this weekend only.

SVA Open Studios

133 West 21st St.

8th & 9TH FLOOR

RECEPTION THURSDAY DEC. 16, 5-9PM

FRIDAY DEC. 17, 12-8PM

SATURDAY DEC. 18, 12-6PM

Sva Open studios invitation

Brooklyn Paper

It’s Bushwick gone wild as area becomes a big art show on Sunday

BY AARON SHORT, The Brooklyn Paper

Ever wonder where all the artists in Brooklyn are moving to these days? That would be Bushwick — where another arts festival is set to command your attention on Sunday.

Beta Spaces, a free one-day arts festival sponsored by the all-volunteer group Arts in Bushwick, consists of more than 50 group exhibitions from neighborhood artists all encompassed between three subway stops on the Williamsburg-Bushwick border.

That freewheeling spirit has generated a lively mix of shows each with its own theme that include a pile of metal, rubber and plastic scraps that experimental musicians use to make music, a mystical alleyway on Forrest Street filled with performance artists and trees, and a female arts collective called the Push Pops leading an “aerobic utopia,”“The festival provides an opportunity for inexperienced curators to try something for the first time, said Arts in Bushwick’s Ali Aschman, who curated her own show, “The Box Which Contains the World” at Brooklyn Fire Proof. “We’ll accept anybody as long as they are within the parameters we set. We don’t turn anyone away.”

“For ‘Push Pops Gone Wild,’ we’re talking about a woman’s right to be fierce and nasty, her right to embrace wild free love,” said Push Pops founding member Katie Cercone.

Beta Spaces events will be throughout Williamsburg and Bushwick mostly around the Morgan Street L train, Nov. 14 noon–7 pm. For info,www.artsinbushwick.org

PUSH POPS GONE WILD

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  PUSH POPS GONE WILD

  88 Starr St. #3L

  Jefferson L train Stop
  curated by: Katie Cercone
  
  

  Please join the Push Pops, an all female interdisciplinary art collective, for their 4th performance to date. Sunday November 14th from 12 noon to 7pm.

  Come and get the new GO! PUSH POPS...GONE WILD POSTER

  it's a SURPRISE!

  2010 Beta Spaces Exhibitions

  
  click in the map to see it in detail

LINK: BETA SPACES

BETA Spaces (Bushwick Exhibition Triangle of Alternative Spaces) is a free one-day festival conceptualized and thematic group exhibitions on Sunday November 14th, from 12-7pm. The festival focuses on curatorial experimentation and collaboration. There will be over 50 shows, including the work of over 400 individual artists, in spaces ranging from galleries to studios to apartments to mobile trucks to Smartphone apps!

Go! Push Pops...Goodbye to you!

We submitted a video to apexart gallery show: COMVIDEO. Please watch and vote for our most recent video "GoodBye to You" APEXART COMVIDEO An Open Call Exhibition With an essay by Pinky Carnage Opening reception: Wed, Nov 10, 6-8 pm Including over 140 videos submitted from 19 countries. Vote online and visit COMVIDEO at apexart. We invited artists and creative others from around the world to cut, dub, reverse, add to, and otherwise manipulate at least one broadcast commercial and submit a 60 second video. Add a critical element to the exhibition by helping us determine the best works. The top five finalists will have their work shown on a public screen in Manhattan, and the winner will receive a $2,000 cash prize. apexart from November 10 - December 22, 2010, with an opening reception on Wed., November 10, 6-8 pm.

Vote through January 15, 2011. Winners will be announced January 19, 2011.