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Go! Push Pops

Go! Push Pops, formally named The Push Pop Collective[1] is a queer, transnational, radical feminist 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
EducationSchool of Visual Arts
Known forFeminist art, ecofeminist art
Notable workBlock Watching Remix, Bad Bitches, 500,000
MovementTransnational feminism, Goddess movement, hip hop feminism
AwardsCulture Push
2014 Fellowship for Utopian Practice

History edit

Go! Push Pops formed in 2010 at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) where both Cercone and Garcia obtained their MFA in 2011.[4] Go! Push Pops studied with Marilyn Minter, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Dan Cameron, Kate Gilmore (artist) and Jacqueline 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 artist Portia Munson’s “Pink Project” at P.P.O.W. Gallery in Chelsea.[5][6]

Go! Push Pops have performed at The Brooklyn 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 at Soho20 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 about 4th wave feminist art.[9][10]

Influences edit

Go! Push Pops work is contemporary performance art from a standpoint of embodied feminist pedagogy grounded in the spiritual principles of ecofeminist art and can be connected to the Goddess movement[11][12] The work is characteristically sex-positive.[13] Their work references the Feminist 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 at Bitch (magazine) where she was introduced to Third-wave feminism and its critique of popular culture. Go! Push Pops also name the artist Narcissister as an important influence and have appeared as Narcissister "sisters" in shows at the New Museum, The Kitchen, Envoy enterprises and The Hole.

About the work edit

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 from Materials for the Arts to make their work.[16]

Career highlights edit

Go! Push Pops broke into the Bushwick, 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 by Michelle Lopez during Bushwick Open Studios remixing found footage of Luis Gispert's original 2002 Block Watching video. In 2013, Luis Gispert invited Go! Push Pops to perform Block Watching Remix during the Brooklyn 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 of Luis Gispert’s sculptural Jamaican sound system the Brooklyn Museum commissioned for the party and referenced the glitzy black power aesthetic of Mickalene Thomas, commercial rap music and nudity as a feminist protest tactic used by groups such as FEMEN.[21]


In early 2012 at The Frontrunner gallery in Soho, Go! Push Pops collaborated with painter Bryn McConnell in a performance called "Girlesque," featured in Bomb (magazine).[22] Also In 2012, Go! Push Pops performed “Bulimic Flow,”[23] a yoga hip hop fusion featuring TLC (group)’s lyric “crazy sexy cool” as Mantra. A collaboration with Andrae Hinds, Bulimic Flow happened during Amy Smith Stewart’s exhibition CAMPAIGN at C24 Gallery[24] In the spring of 2013, Go! Push Pops were invited to Baltimore by the Maryland Institute College of Art where they performed with BoomBoxBoy (the rap artist Prince 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 at The Bronx Museum of the Arts.[27] In 2013, Go! Push Pops performed for Art 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 the Whitney Museum of American Art during the Whitney 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 in The 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 as India Menuez.[32]

References edit

  1. ^ "Go! Push Pops website". Thepushpopcollective.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  2. ^ "Elisa Garcia website". Elisaghs.com. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  3. ^ "Katie Cercone website". Katiecercone.com. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  4. ^ Gleisner, Jacquelyn (2014-08-14). "The Go! Push Pops on Future Feminisms". Art21. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  5. ^ "Go! Push Pops "Taped" on Youtube". YouTube.com. 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  6. ^ Cercone, Katie (July 2010). "Aesthetics of Addiction: Marilyn Minter and the Legacy of Female Consumer Pathos" (PDF). n.paradoxa. 26: 82–89. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-15.
  7. ^ "Go! Push Pops on Soho20 website". Soho20gallery.com. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  8. ^ "Artist portrait : Go! Push Pops. Alexandra Arts - Another Story Productions". alexandra-arts.org.uk/.
  9. ^ "This new doc profiles America's fourth wave feminist artists". Dazed. Dazed. 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  10. ^ Frank, Priscilla (14 December 2015). "Fourth-Wave Feminist Artists Kicking A** And Showing It Too A look inside Robert Adanto's documentary 'The F Word'". Huffington Post.
  11. ^ Keegan, Arianne (2015-12-16). "INTERVIEW WITH THE PUSH POP COLLECTIVE". SHE/FOLK. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  12. ^ Yerebakan, Osman (2017-05-05). "Politics of Hanging Out: 'Love Action Art Lounge' At Franklin Street Works". Filthy Dreams. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  13. ^ Solle, Kristen Bustle (February 2016). "5 Sex-Positive Feminist Artists to Know"
  14. ^ Siegel, Evan (2016-07-08). "'YOUTH EXPLOSION,' AN ART SHOW FEAT. INDIA MENUEZ, MICHAEL BAILEY-GATES + MORE". Milk Media. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  15. ^ Murphy, Kate (2016). "Go! Push Pops: Evolution of a Radical Feminist Art Collective". Frontrunner. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  16. ^ "Meet the Push Pops". Materials for the Arts. September 5, 2013. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  17. ^ "Go! Push Pops Gone Wild on Youtube". YouTube.com. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  18. ^ Short, Aaron (2010-11-08). "It's Bushwick gone wild as area becomes a big art show on Sunday". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  19. ^ "Push Porn: A Lesbian Gangsta Erotica by The Push Pop Collective". Catch-Fire Berlin. 2012-06-21. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  20. ^ "Block Watching Remix on Youtube". YouTube.com. 2011-06-25. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  21. ^ Smeyne, Rebecca (2013-04-25). "Scenes from the Brooklyn Artists Ball". Paper.
  22. ^ Silverman, Rena (2012-02-29). "BRYN MCCONNELL: LOOKED". Bombsite. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  23. ^ "Bulimic Flow on Youtube". YouTube.com. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  24. ^ Szerlip, Stephanie (2012-01-27). "Campaign at C24 Gallery". Artnet TV. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  25. ^ Levine, Eitan (2015-07-06). "This Genius Rapper Actually Made His Entire Album In An Apple Store". Elite Daily. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  26. ^ "Go! Push Pops BoomBoxBoy on Youtube". YouTube.com. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
  27. ^ "Go! Push Pops QUEEN$ DOMiN8TiN at the Bronx Museum". Posture Magazine. 2013-09-22. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  28. ^ AIOP Blog, (October 2013). "Go! Push Pops: Spectacle and Embodied Feminism"
  29. ^ Posture Magazine (November 2013). “Go! Push Pops Perform 500,000 For Art in Odd Places”
  30. ^ Jillian Steinhauer, Hyperallergic, May 2014
  31. ^ "From dusk till dawn at Roppongi Art Night | The Japan Times". The Japan Times. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  32. ^ "Scenes from the Buoy R+R, a Post-Feminist Art Retreat and Residency". PAPER. 2015-07-17. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
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