Mission Statement

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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Monday, November 29, 2010

The Brooklyn Paper

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



Wednesday, November 10, 2010

PUSH POPS GONE WILD


Beta Spaces 2010

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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



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!



Monday, November 8, 2010

Go! Push Pops...Goodbye to you!

We submitted a video to apexart gallery show:
Please watch and vote for our most recent
video "GoodBye to You"


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.