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http://art511mag.com/2017/07/24/a-public-cervix-announcement-to-yung-queers/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsqdn6hXZ9Q 

https://d3zr9vspdnjxi.cloudfront.net/artistInfo/elisaghs/biblio/36.pdf?1505938055

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Elephant Journal <> The New Female Front 

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Mandala Cypher Workshop with UNDAKOVA [Hip Hop Kids Yoga]

Go! Push Pops third project at the Sixth Community Center, this two-day workshop in collaboration with UNDAKOVA of B.E.A.T. NYC included holistic Hip Hop Yoga, wisdom from Ayurvedic Mama on the sacred connection between our bodies, our food supply and the earth culminating in the building of a fruit and vegetable mandala and closing cipher about conscious eating. Stay tuned for more collaboration to come with UNDAKOVA Hip Hop Yoga for Kids!

August 2016, Photos courtesy Sixth Street Community Center

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Go! Push Pops Great Goddess Academy

In honor of a powerful resurgence of interest around the energy of the Great Goddess, Go! Push Pops hosted a sacred reading circle in Prospect Park August 2016 with esteemed guest Nancy Azara and Kay Turner, two of the pioneers of the 1970’s Feminist Art movement in NYC both featured in the Heresies Journal “Great Goddess” issue. RSVP’s to the event received a .pdf copy of HERESIES #5 “Great Goddess” issue packed with articles such as Merlin Stone’s The Three Faces of Goddess Spirituality, Carol P. Christ’s Why Women Need the Goddess, Toni Head’s Changing the Hymns to Hers, Kay Turner’s Contemporary Feminist Rituals, Lucy Lippard’s Stonesprings, Mimi Lobell’s Temples of the Great Goddess, poetry by Sappho, and artwork by Nancy Azara, Louise Bourgeois and more. Following the discussion Ayurvedic Mama led a foraging walk through the park.

ABOUT HERESIES Journal:

HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics was first published in January 1977, and covered topics such as feminist theory, art, politics, patterns of communication, lesbian art and artists, women's traditional arts and politics of aesthetics, women and violence, working women together, women from peripheral nations, women and music, sex, film, activism, racism, and coming of age. There were hundreds of collective members including accomplished artists, writers, architects, painters, filmmakers, designers, editors, curators and teachers. Notable members of the mother collective included Lucy Lippard, Miriam Schapiro, Mary Miss, Joyce Kozloff, Mary Beth Edelson, Pat Steir, Elke Solomon, Joan Snyder, and Harmony Hammond.

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CulturePush ARTIFACTS & AFTER AFFECTS Exhibition

ARTIFACTS & AFTER AFFECTS Curated by Madelyn Ringold-Brown and Culture Push, Westbeth Gallery July 9 - July 30, 2016, New York, NY

For the CulturePush ARTIFACTS & AFTER AFFECTS exhibition at Westbeth Gallery, Go! Push Pops showed a curated series of nine limited edition performance posters [2011-2015] with explanatory text. Posters for sale today on ART POW WOW !!

During the closing party July 29th at 7pm, we teamed up with UNDAKOVA of  B.E.A.T. NYC for a collaborative cypher-style performance around a fruit and vegetable mandala.  This short performance was a teaser promoting our August workshop at the Sixth Street Community Center, a 2-day UNDAKOVA Hip Hop Yoga for Kids series using holistic hip hop as an entry point into developing a more conscious relationship to food.

Thank you Trader Joe’s for the donation of fruits, vegetables and flowers

Photography courtesy CulturePush

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Narcissister “OUT OF LINE” on the High Line

Performing as “sisters” for radical feminist artist Narcissister’s performance OUT OF LINE: Narcissister. A huge vagina dentate with living pubic hair animated by a video of our boobs and soundtrack featuring Audre Lorde on the Function of the Erotic. Curated by Friends of the High Line, July 2016. Also featuring Ximena Balmori & Laura Weyl.

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“Water Bubble Vibers” for Greem Jellyfish DJ Set

Dancing as a colony of jellyfish to mystical Greem Jellyfish DJ set at Baby

Castles. Also featuring Stefan Martin, Crackerzzz Barrel, Sophia Park, Baby Kali, UNDAKOVA & more!

July 2016 New York, NY

Check out Greem Jellyfish on SOUNDCLOUD

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ART POW WOW Summer Solstice Full Moon Celebration

Go! Push Pops kicked off ART POW WOW’S 2016 Summer Solstice Celebration at Alchemist Kitchen under the strawberry moon with a sacred ceremony honoring the light, the inner fire/power and the ever-present earth energies. A collaboration with UNDAKOVA, we ceremoniously ignited our collective inner fires, burning away all that was no longer serving us and heating up the passions that bind us together in song, dance and celebration. Following the opening ceremony, Go! Push Pops were available for short, individual cleansing and healing sessions.

Featured Artists included: Music by DJ Srikalogy, Palm Readings by Izaskun Zabala, Purifying Mists and Essential Oils by Sacred Grounds, Gong Bath by Casey Karr, Consciousness Consultations with James Thomas Peach a.k.a Rainbow Star Guide, Flower Crowns by Lydia Andrien, 3D Art Visuals by Chilean artist Paula Garrido Miranda and RGB Lighting by Saire Studio as the collaborative group Arte Usable

Photography by Gretchen Robinette

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RATCHET AMMA Ecstatic Birth Blanket Babylon at YOUTH EXPLOSION

Curated by Czech artist Marie Tomanova, YOUTH EXPLOSION: The New Bohemia was a group exhibition featuring a diverse group of emerging artists working in New York City. For the opening of the exhibition July 7th, YOUTH EXPLOSION took over New York’s Czech Center (CCNY), located in the historic Bohemian National Hall on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Special programming for the opening reception included a selection of video art, ALT SPACE Pop-up shop, "CZECH OUT" roof top party hosted by Nicky Ottav, DJ set by XHOSA and live performances by RAFiA, Legacy Fatale and Go! Push Pops.

           Go! Push Pops ritual performance collaboration with UNDAKOVA titled RATCHET AMMA’S ECSTATIC BIRTH BLANKET BABYLON featured MC Ratchet Amma’s freestyle flow “I give natural birth cuz I ride of cry with the muthafuckin earth!” performed in the center of a hand-sewn ecstatic birth blanket. Ambrosial Twat ritually imbibed a juicey papaya while UNDAKOVA delivered a hip hop sermon on the powers of natural birth as audience members chanted along “RATCHET AMMA” in sing-song fashion.

Photo credits to Michala Rusaňuková‎ and Marie Tomanova

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Srikalogy set feat. UNDAKOVA at Unifier Festival

Go! Push Pops hypnotize and harmonize on the main stage with the BK Family during SRIKALOGY set at UNIFIER, featuring UNDAKOVA “Father’s Day Flow,” Michelle Joni & David Powers.

Unifier Healing & Expressive Arts Festival, 2016, Tolland, MA

Video by Modern Resourcery

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F-Word at Art of Brooklyn Film Festival

Robert Adanto’s F-WORD documentary on 4th Wave Feminist Artists featuring Go! Push Pops, Narcissister, Michelle Marie Charles, Damali Abrams, Faith Holland, Rebecca Goyette, Kate Durbin, RAFiA, SADAF & many more continues to make international waves. June 2016 The F-Word was an official selection of the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, and screened at St. Francis College. The F-Word’s Brooklyn premier, an informative panel featuring Go! Push Pops and Leah Schrager followed the screening. #AoBFF16 is a yearly festival in support of independent filmmakers around the world Aobff.org

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June 2016, “The Gateway” at TANDEM, Bushwick, Brooklyn

Gemini New Moon Celebration at GATEWAY

For “THE GATEWAY” New Moon Celebration hosted by SLOTH VILLAGE, aligning with the energy of Gemini, we found the place where opposites meet, exploring rituals & rites based around themes of duality and partnership. Just near dawn, connecting to our highest selves during the holy hour of sunrise, Go! Push Pops took visitors deep into the void with a dreamy nature meditation/ soundscape collaboration featuring Ricardo Vincenzo, Peter Power & Madelena Carrots. Wind chimes, gongs and the heart-healing vibration of crystal bowls sunk participants into a deeply restorative sonic bath. This immersive ritual concluded with a delicious prana breakfast served by Ayurvedic Mama. Also featuring Greem Jellyfish, Psychadelic goddess go-go's & a host of interactive performances.

*Photos of sound bath to be updated soon. 

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An Incantation to the Cosmic Cervix with Ambrosial Twat as Earth, Monchy Indie as Water, Metagasm as Fire, Fanny Pérez as Air, Mantra Mundana as Ether, Poet Annie Doran & Baby Kali in Mystical Ratchet's W((OM))B with UNDAKOVA as the Heartbeat.

YONI PUJA: INCANTATION TO THE COSMIC CERVIX

A ritual performance during ACTIVATING THE SUFFRAGETTE! May 2016 at Grace Exhibition Space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Performing a live Yoni Puja utilizing the 5 elements of Hindu cosmology, we invoked KALI – the Hindu warrior Goddess embodying the dark side of primordial nature, sexuality, death, destruction - all that which the tyranny of white western patriarchal colonial imperialism has tried to control or repress. We believe it is Kali who can heal the world over, restoring the archetypal power of the Feminine – both her wondrous life-giving strength and her terrible and chaotic aspects. Shakti jai MAA!

Flyer by METAGASM

Photography by Aria Eastwood AriaEastwood.com

& Jason Roldan (where noted)

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During GODDESS PARTY V, a regular Brooklyn performance event for creative women-identified folks organized by Rebecca Richards and Jen Plaskowitz, Go! Push Pops teamed up with Doorways of LeSphinxx and Monchy Indie for a spooky sound set and live performance ritual honoring the Mother Earth and the Womb. April 2016 At the Secret Project Robot Art Experiment in Brooklyn.

Video Projection by Morgan Mann

Photography by David Jason Williams

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VA VA VENUS: Expanding Hearts at the Temple of Love is a queer multi-sensory sacred experience merging art, ritual, beauty and immersive spiritual practice in a radical way for holistic well-being. A workshop offered by Go! Push Pops in collaboration with Lainie Love Dalby, VA VA VENUS is a feast of love designed to help you break open your heart and deepen your connection to source and your inner truth. 

Coming soon!! Stay tuned for upcoming workshop details and dates…

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"Art Economy": a Workshop on Professional Development (And Philosophy) In-and-out of the Belly of the Institution, was presented by The Not-quite-free-school with instruction and organization from members of Go! Push Pops, gROUPSELF Collective and Kalan Sherrard at GG Nix community space in Bushwick January 2016.

Topics included grantwriting, the CV, cooperative economics, institutional critique and complicity, radical dis/affection, flirting, ways to foster art community without the support of big oil, etc....

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AVOCADO DOMINATRIX

A live ritual performance remixing Peaches' single RUB in collaboration with Amy Lousia Wilde, Ximena Balmori, Annie Doran & Jenny Bloom. Chanting Adi Shakti to the all-present Mother to set the sacred space, we ceremoniously saged, ritually sacrificed an avocado with a menacing knife and rubbed our naked bodhis to the beat. During the NYC premier of Robert Adanto’s documentary on 4th wave feminist art the F-WORD at Superchief gallery in SOHO, January 2016.

Photography by Andrew Hutner

Watch the live performance edit by ÅKLØ on the Superchief Media Channel