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Announcing RECONVENE Sessions, a new series covering what's new, what's next, and what matters for independent event creators.
Push Projects is thrilled to collaborate with Eventbrite to curate RECONVENE, bringing together event creators and business owners to discuss the importance of event series in growing one’s business community.
Museum of Food and Drink Programs
During the month of March, Push Projects curated a expansive series of talks by black chefs, pitmasters, academics, conessuers, poets & beyond. In partnership with MOFAD we worked with over 15 speakers!
Infinite Objects Expanded
Push Projects is excited to roll out four new artists for our curation of Infinite Objects. These original pieces infinitely loop a video by the following fantastic artists:
Livia Falcaru “water lily tears”
Azikiwe Mohammed “looking for solace”
Gabriel Garcia-Colombo “home sweet home”
Alina Tenser “drag swipe click pinch”
Grace Miceli - have you tried meditating
Push Projects Drops Collection for Infinite Objects
Push projects is so excited to announce the launch of our collections page on infinite objects. for those of you who aren't familiar with infinite objects, they print video. I know sounds mind bending but they have figured out a way for collectors to live with moving image.
Push is super excited to not only work with infinite objects but also launching its own collection with 7 artists. we are launching with three artists. Stay tuned for new artists every week.
in the meantime, welcome....
Ilana Harris Babou "making arrangements"
Grace Miceli "have you tried meditating"
Clayton McCracken "water table"
Molly Surno Judges 6 Feet 6 Weeks Film Festival
We are excited to announce the winners of the 6 Feet 6 Weeks Film Festival, judged by Molly Surno, with Junior High:
Aja Smith @zendayas_simp
and
Jada Smith @murderouscinnamonroll
with their film Jada and Aja Go to the Store.
Congratulations Aja and Jada!
The films had to be shot on a phone, be made with 0 budget, and be less than 6 minutes long to compete!
Quarantine Forecast with Matteah Baim
Quarantine Forecast is an audio visual collaboration started by artist Molly Surno and musician Matteah Baim. Everyday, Surno would take a video of a mundane action on the west coast, where she and her family had relocated for the duration of the quarantine. The videos were then sent to Baim back in New York, who scored them with a mix of field recordings, found footage, and music. This collaboration served as a creative conversation between the two artists, who were once neighbors and now translating this daily experience through a multimedia conversation.
Push Projects partners with Ideaison for Retrospekt Fest
Bursting with authenticity, Retrospekt takes inspiration from the festivals and events fans know and love and seeks to pave the way for the future of entertainment. Their mission is to carve a new path and feel good raising funds for under-represented communities and help fans to discover what they didn’t know before in music, art, dance, wellness, design, and more. While the music industry may be physically isolated right now, we are still musically, creatively, and digitally connected.
Healing Feeling featured in LALA Magazine
The effects of the coronavirus have been devastating—first and foremost in terms of human lives, but also financially. Still, as we have witnessed businesses and institutions shutter around the world, we have been awestruck by the ingenuity of artists and creatives in our community who continue to stand together, make work and inspire hope.
Becky Kolsrud named Pick of the Day by Artsy
Healing Feeling
Push Projects teamed up with Dominique Gallery to launch Healing Feeling, an Art Fundraiser to support the delivery of essential materials to medical workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Healing Feeling addresses a universal ecological melancholy through form and materiality to guiding us into a new world order.
Elsewhere Summer
Molly Surno will be collaborating with Elsewhere to curate a series of installations for their summer season with a roster of artists including Ani Bradberry, Bill Rebholz, Bryce Peterson, and Leeroy New.
Infinite Objects
Push Projects will be working with Infinite Objects to elevating the way we live with video.
Design Milk | Friday Five with Molly Surno
Molly Surno shares five things she finds inspiring with Design Milk for Friday Five.
Better World By Design | On Sound and Vision: Curating a Contemporary Art Program in a Nightclub
Lecture by Molly Surno. What if going to a nightclub meant supporting the creation of a new artwork? What if buying a ticket to a concert supported an artists career? Landscape, a new arts initiative, does just that. Situated within Elsewhere, Brooklyn’s hottest music venue, Landscape reimagines the visual arts and how they operate outside of the traditional gallery model. Landscape delivers an ambitious schedule of commissions committed to diversity and visual impact. This talk will explore alternative models for displaying and supporting artworks and how to fund it in sustainable and additive ways. Let’s make some noise by creating an aesthetic wonderland alongside the dance floor.
Paddle8 Salon Launch
With music curation by Molly Surno
Tush Magazine | Fill The Room
Usually, clubs stimulate eyes and ears rather than the nose (at least, not intentionally) and focus on uplifting beats rather than scents. Thanks to Elsewhere’s unique art approach (by featuring gallery-like spaces, curated by art director Molly Surno) – the rooms are filled by a subtle yet sensual smell. “ Scent is an interesting way of calling attention to a different component of the building and allowing people to transport themselves into a different mindset without being too distracting,” tells Surno.
Bushwick Daily | Smells like Bushwick Spirit: New Scent Installation at Elsewhere Club Creates Unique Atmosphere
“Smell can activate a space in a unique way,” said Molly Surno, art director and curator at Elsewhere and creative force behind the Landscape project. “As a curator in a nightclub, I have to be creative about projects that are meaningful, sophisticated, and totally engaging. Scent is an interesting way of calling attention to a different component of the building and allowing people to transport themselves into a different mindset without being too distracting.”
Time Out New York | Elsewhere’s new immersive art show will be focused on smells of Bushwick
Ever wondered what Bushwick would smell like if it was perfume?
A new exhibition launching on October 22nd at the music venue Elsewhere will feature the work of Marissa Zappas, a Brooklyn-based perfumer who is a year-long artist-in-residence, crafting ethereal scents inspired by the space’s seasonal programming.
Bedford + Bowery | Bread Face Girl Wants Dough From Foot Boys
The erotica inherent in her videos is not lost on Molly Surno, the art director of Bushwick venue Elsewhere. The nightclub commissioned Bread Face to work on a series of installations for their in-house art program, including a bathroom stall covered entirely in mirror, then lit and soundtracked. “So when you are peeing, or whatever you are doing in the bathroom stall, you are participating in her installation,” Surno described. “It’s very mysterious, it’s sexy.”
Office Magazine | Stumble Upon
No one ever asks why you go to the club—you just go. And when you show up, you don’t need a reason to be there, you just are. There are few questions to be asked, and fewer answers to be found. What is sought here is easily come upon but difficult to define—it is something fleeting, sensual, and universal.
FLAUNT | ELSEWHERE BROOKLYN SUMMER LANDSCAPE
"The 'Landscape' art program is designed to encourage our audience to have casual and spontaneous interactions with art. By showcasing a diverse range of emerging artists, you will inevitably be confronted with new ideas, materials, and visual experiences through a range of installations and commissions. Each season I select a series of artists to take over a section of the building, creating somewhat of an "exquisite corpse" where slowly each corner of the structure will house an artists' intervention."
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Passerbuys | Meet Molly Surno
Born in California, Molly creates physical experiences that connect people to their own bodies and the “communal body.” So whether she is working as the Director of Partnerships at Splacer or composing a sound sculpture for BAM, her work is always about the human form and how it generates tension and unity when sharing space. Her works has exhibited internationally at the Essl Museum, Salzburg Museum of Modern Art, Suzanne Geiss, and Anat Ebgi Galery. She is also the founder and director of Cinema 16, which pairs contemporary musicians with experimental films.
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What Should We Do | People Who Make NY Special
Culture savant Molly Surno shares NYC’s best avant-garde art and film with our members.
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High Steaks Media | Breaking My Keto Diet
Josh Dassa writes a piece on the Breadface x Mission Chinese collaboration I curated for Landscape Summer 2019 opening.
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Landscape Winter Opening 2019
January 15th the Landscape Winter Season of exhibitions opens with works by Azikiwe Mohammed, Lauren Clay, and Alina Tenser.
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Landscape Summer Night
On August 14th the season finale of my rotating art program, Landscape, will showcase a live DJ set by Hisham Akira Bharoocha and Jeremy Hyman (Animal Collective) as well a video piece by the Australian art duo Soda Jerk. Come by and hang on the roof with us!
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New York Public Library
NYPL asked me to comb through their collection of 16mm and screen a series of films on August 15th. You can catch my film night:, CITY OF ANGLES: From Rolling Hills to Tortilla Flats, Southern California in the 60s and 70s at their 42nd Street Location.
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NURTUREart
NURTUREart has asked me to curate a playlist for their annual benefit and silent auction. Support an incredible arts organization, bid on a piece, and enjoy my tunes.
