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Go! Push Pops | |
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| Education | School of Visual Arts |
| Known for | Feminist art,ecofeminist art |
| Notable work | Block Watching Remix, Bad Bitches, 500,000 |
| Movement | Transnational feminism,Goddess movement,hip hop feminism |
| Awards | Culture Push 2014Fellowship for Utopian Practice |
Go! Push Pops, formally named The Push Pop Collective[1] is a queer, transnational, radicalfeminist art collective under the direction of Elisa Garcia de la Huerta[2] (b. 1983 Santiago, Chile) and Katie Cercone[3] (b. 1984 Santa Rosa, CA).
Go! Push Pops formed in 2010 at theSchool of Visual Arts (SVA) where both Cercone and Garcia obtained their MFA in 2011.[4] Go! Push Pops studied withMarilyn Minter,Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt,Dan Cameron,Kate Gilmore (artist) andJacqueline Winsor while at SVA. At that time, painter Anna Souvorov (b. 1983 Moscow, Russia) was the third leader of the collective. Go! Push Pops first unofficial performance happened spontaneously during a visit to artistPortia Munson’s “Pink Project” at P.P.O.W. Gallery in Chelsea.[5][6]
Go! Push Pops have performed at TheBrooklyn Museum,The Bronx Museum of the Arts,Maryland Institute College of Art,C24 Gallery,Momenta Art,Apexart,Dixon Place and Cue Art Foundation. Go! Push Pops has been artist-in-residence atSoho20 Chelsea gallery in New York City[7] and Alexandra Arts in Manchester, UK.[8] In 2014, Go! Push Pops was awarded the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice. Go! Push Pops were a featured artist in Robert Adanto's the F-Word, a documentary about4th wave feminist art.[9][10]
Go! Push Pops work is contemporary performance art from a standpoint of embodiedfeminist pedagogy grounded in the spiritual principles ofecofeminist art and can be connected to theGoddess movement[11][12] The work is characteristically sex-positive.[13] Their work references theFeminist art movement,Dada,Fluxus,Neo-Burlesque,Shamanism,Hip-hop feminism,Culture jamming,Riot grrrl,Queercore and American popular culture. As a young adult, Push Pop co-leader Katie Cercone interned atBitch (magazine) where she was introduced toThird-wave feminism and its critique of popular culture. Go! Push Pops also name the artistNarcissister as an important influence and have appeared as Narcissister "sisters" in shows at theNew Museum,The Kitchen,Envoy enterprises and The Hole.
Go! Push Pops' performance work is collaborative in nature and socially engaged. Many of their performances engage elements of hip hop and involve rapping as a form of embodied feminism.[14] In addition to live performances they offer workshops for youth and adults.[15] Glossy 11 x 17 in. Go! Push Pops posters documenting each performance were a classic fixture of their early work. Go! Push Pops often use free items fromMaterials for the Arts to make their work.[16]
Go! Push Pops broke into theBushwick, Brooklyn performance art scene with their seven-hour durational performance “Gone Wild”[17] during Bushwick Beta Spaces 2010.[18] Go! Push Pops “Push Porn,”[19] a 13-minute lesbian gangsta erotica film, premiered during Bushwick Open Studios 2011 inside a barbershop on Wilson Avenue.
In 2011, Go! Push Pops performed Block Watching Remix[20] at the Moore St. Market in a show curated byMichelle Lopez during Bushwick Open Studios remixing found footage ofLuis Gispert's original 2002 Block Watching video. In 2013,Luis Gispert invited Go! Push Pops to perform Block Watching Remix during theBrooklyn Museum's Annual Artist Ball. Go! Push Pops also performed a piece called Bad Bitches, a collaboration with Michelle Marie Charles. Bad Bitches was performed in the center ofLuis Gispert’s sculptural Jamaican sound system theBrooklyn Museum commissioned for the party and referenced the glitzy black power aesthetic ofMickalene Thomas, commercial rap music and nudity as a feminist protest tactic used by groups such asFEMEN.[21]
In early 2012 at TheFrontrunner gallery in Soho, Go! Push Pops collaborated with painter Bryn McConnell in a performance called "Girlesque," featured inBomb (magazine).[22] Also In 2012, Go! Push Pops performed “Bulimic Flow,”[23] a yoga hip hop fusion featuringTLC (group)’s lyric “crazy sexy cool” asMantra. A collaboration with Andrae Hinds, Bulimic Flow happened during Amy Smith Stewart’s exhibition CAMPAIGN atC24 Gallery[24] In the spring of 2013, Go! Push Pops were invited to Baltimore by theMaryland Institute College of Art where they performed with BoomBoxBoy (the rap artistPrince Harvey known for secretly recording his entire PHATASS album in the Apple Store),[25] in a nomadic work that moved through local businesses of the Baltimore Arts District.[26]
In Fall of 2013, Go! Push Pops performed “QUEEN$ DOMiN8TiN” in collaboration with Untitled Queen atThe Bronx Museum of the Arts.[27] In 2013, Go! Push Pops performed forArt in Odd Places[28] Festival for which they collaborated with Meg Welch on a piece about inter-military rape called “500,000.”[29] Go! Push Pops was instrumental in organizing "The Clitney Perennial" performative feminist protest at theWhitney Museum of American Art during theWhitney Biennial in 2014.[30] In 2015, Go! Push Pops organized a spirit animal workshop and parade during Roppongi Art Night in Tokyo, Japan, as featured inThe Japan Times.[31] Go! Push Pops was part of the first ever BUOY R&R in Deep River Connecticut organized by the feminist art duo BUOY along with artists such asIndia Menuez.[32]
