PUSH PORN: A LESBIAN GANGSTA EROTICA BY THE PUSH POP COLLECTIVE

For Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) 2012, Go! Push Pops premiered their lesbian-gangsta-erotica ‘Push Porn’ on 2 screens at Homero’s Barbershop, a local business where they filmed a segment of the video with their stylist Ecua. Starring local hustla celeb “Strawberry,” Push Porn is a nastay lucid dream about drugs, popsicles and gentrification at the frontier of the avant-ghetto. The opening party and world premier of the ‘Push Porn’ included scalp design specials by Ecua the official Push Pop barber, free limited edition posters, bootleg porn & beer.

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If you would like to see this short film:

Purchase the Push Porn on Etsy for only $10

Limited Edition of 100 12:49 min color DVD

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THE PUSH POPS ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL BE PART OF 


BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS 2012

Go! Push Pops is a radical, transnational Hip Hop Feminist Collective based in Brooklyn. For BOS 2012, the Push Pops will premier their lesbian-gangsta-erotica ‘Push Porn’ on 2 screens at Homero’s Barbershop, where they filmed a segment of the video. Starring local hustla celeb “Strawberry,” Push Porn is a nastay lucid dream about drugs, popsicles and gentrification at the frontier of the avant-ghetto.

Push Porn Release Party Friday Night!! JUNE 1st

6-9pm Homero’s Barbershop, 14th Wilson Ave.

**Scalp designs by Ecua the official Push Pop barber, free limited edition posters, bootleg porn + beer.

Location

Homero's Barbershop
14 Wilson Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Dates & Times

Friday June 1st, 2012, 6-9pm
Saturday June 2nd, 2012, 12pm-7pm
Sunday June 3rd, 2012, 12pm-7pm


http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2012/directory/?listing=3323

Go! Push Pops "Push Pole" is contemporary revisioning of the European ‘May Pole’ Folk Ritual. Attributed with many meanings including a symbol of the world axis (axis mundi), reverence for sacred trees and early Modern phallic symbolism, Push Pole is a fluxus style ‘happening’ in collaboration with the artist Milena Shakujō who has developed an experimental soundscape to accompany the performance.

 

Go! Push Pops Push Pole is part of ‘The Standard for Spring,’ a nomadic performance festival in the Chelsea Arts district (High Line) curated by Tara Raye Russo. 

 

Saturday May 19^th at 6pm sharp

Meet at 15^th St. and 10^th Ave* (Chelsea)

 

Festival Updates available on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/Standard4Spring

You are Cordially invited to the first official Go! Push Pops Open Studio marking the end of our residency at Soho20 Gallery in Chelsea. Please join us for refreshments, the Push Pop video reel and new work by Crystal and Diamond aka founding members Elisa Garcia de la Huerta and Katie Cercone.

Thursday April 19th, 6-8pm

Soho20 Gallery

547 West 27th St.  3rd Floor stay TRILLA xo The Push Pops

Magic Banner, a Push Pop Collaboration with artist Ivy Castellanos, took place at the IV Soldier Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn on March 16, 2012. Led by Castellanos as The Conductor, a ‘violent sculpture’ on stilts with a cloak of dried paint in the likeness of the American flag; the Push Pops, now a pregnant gay hood couple, sang a bilingual National Anthem against the backdrop of Magic Johnson’s 1991 press conference in which he announced that he was H.I.V. positive and would serve as a spokesperson for the disease. Magic Banner is a public proclamation calling for a new national horizon supported by conscious and humble leadership toward a greater good.

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Queers in a Space 

March 31st, 2012 at IV Soldiers Gallery in Bushwick
Michelle poetry
Switch n' Play
The Push Pop Collective

GO! Push Pops released secret project for the first time!


GO! PUSH POPS  PUSH PORN 

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Special Thanks to Ventiko!!

AnimamusArtSalon

Animamus Art Salon was created by Ventiko in 2011 with the mission to create a safe, supportive and inspiring environment for artists of all mediums to debut and discuss their current work while encouraging audience participation and simultaneously enabling a performance of ideas, which can not be repeated. 

Animamus Salon seeks, in this digital age, to create a physical meeting space that will serve to foster the exchange of ideas, facilitate discourse, and create a sense of community. 

The Push Pops screened documentation of our Yoga Hip Hop Fusion 'Bulimic Flow' and talked about our collective mission.

check out more photos of 1 April 2012 Animamus Art Salon visits The Schoolhouse

Great photos by Photo by Andrew Bridge

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The Push Pops will be performing in collaboration with Ivy Castellanos tonite March 16th at 8.30pm 

if you are around bushwick! 

come to check out IV Soldiers new gallery space!!

BOMBLOG

ART
BRYN MCCONNELL: LOOKED

by Rena Silverman Feb 29, 2012

TO SEE THE COMPLETE ARTICLE CLICK HERE:
BOMB Magazine

(EXCERPT)

For the closing exhibition party at the Frontrunner Gallery on a February 2nd, McConnell participated in a 13-minute staged piece with the Push Pops, a Bushwick-based performance group led by Katie Cercone and Elisa Garcia de la Huerta. According to their Go! Push Pops website, the Push Pops are a “radical, queer feminist art collective…geared towards engendering ‘Embodied Feminism’…[and] concerned with the expenditure and conservation of the self in relation to the Other.” Ms. Cercone and Ms. Garcia show this by adding a third libero member to vary each performance. On February 2nd, Bryn McConnell was that member.

Bryn McConnell performing with the Push Pops. Photo © Leah Overstreet and the Frontrunner Gallery.

Push Pop member. Photo © Leah Overstreet and the Frontrunner Gallery.

“The main thing I could contribute [to the collective] would be my concept,” says McConnell, who originally described the group as “Feminist Dada,” one that in performance “usually ends up getting aggressive or somehow a little bit explosive.”

The February performance took place against the back-drop of McConnell’s paintings. A triangle made of tape marked each of the girls’ places, where they walked out with scissors and chopped off pieces of each other’s clothes, drawing on each other’s faces with bright pink-red lipstick. At one point, McConnell, who was originally dressed in lacy black skirt, barely had more than a bra and rags on, while the other members had lipstick all over their faces.

The Push Pops. Photo © Leah Overstreet and the Frontrunner Gallery.

But somehow it worked. At times, the girls even looked like McConnell’s paintings had come to life.

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.

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.

Go! Push Pops Presents,

GIRLESQUE

A Collaboration with Bryn McConnell

during the closing reception of

LOOKED

Re: Self-reflection/refraction/reflexion

Solo Show of paintings

by Bryn McConnell

Thursday February 2, 2012

Reception 6-9pm

Performance at 7:30pm

Frontrunner Gallery

59 Franklin Street

New York, NY 10013

http://www.frontrunnermagazine.com/

http://www.brynmcconnell.com/

http://gopushpops.blogspot.com/

GO!PUSHPOPS

BULIMIC FLOW

Yoga Hip Hop Fusion for the 3rd Chakra (Personal Power)

feat. TLC's crazysexycool as a looped MANTRA

'Campaign' Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart
C24 Gallery

2012