FROM THE ARCHIVE: Push Pull, 2021 (in collaboration with Carrie Hanson, Damon Green, and Liviu Pasare)
Push Pull (2021), selected photographs
Seeing as our previous post, part two to the continued release of Faheem's 2009 thesis text TDOTSSCAC included his performance piece Piano Push of the same year, I wanted to look to his 2021 work Push Pull as it exists as a direct continuation of Faheem's earlier performance, a similar Sisyphean task retraced a little more than a decade later.
Clip of Push Pull (2021). View in full screen for optimal experience.
Produced in collaboration with Liviu Pasare, choreographer Carrie Hanson and dancer Damon Green of The Seldoms, Push Pull's initial 2021 exhibition as part of Faheem's Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden: Shrouds at the Hyde Park Art Center saw itself in subsequent variations moving beyond the literal walls of the SSCAC's Burroughs gallery, an apt literalization of the pushing of a legacy forward. Projected onto the HPAC's exterior, Push Pull was exhibited in Shrouds simultaneously as video, photo, and live performance. Here, the administrator gathers, grapples, and carries the literal facade of the institution with him, Faheem's laboriously constructed graphite rubbing of the SSCAC's exterior now within the building, a sort of turning inside-out of the institution taking place (see HPAC video below of the rubbing process). Behind Green, a selection of 5 works from the SSCAC's collection - from left to right, Jeff Donaldson's Ala Shango (1969), Barbara Jones-Hogu's Unite (1970), Charles Wilbert White's Spiritual (1941), Bernard Goss' John Henry's 11th Hour (1949), Leon Wright's Figure Composition (1940) - stare back, looking over the shoulder of the administrator's movements. View a PDF image list of those works here. By way of video, this performance perpetually exists within the Center; in 2023, Push Pull was immortalized by way of a looping installation in O'Hare's Terminal 5, transporting international arrivals entering the city to a legacy institution in the South Side of Chicago, as well as variated at the Centre Pompidou of Paris.
Please enjoy this revisitation to Push Pull as a collection of clips, documents, images, and links.
Clips from original live performance of Push Pull at Shrouds, 2021
Rubbing process in preview of Shrouds by the Hyde Park Art Center.
Push Pull in In These Truths at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 2022
Still from dancer Michel "Meech" Onomo's reinterpretation of Push Pull at Centre Pompidou, 2023. Click here for the full performance.
Installation image of Push Pull's abstracted loop version at Terminal 5. Click here for O'Hare's page on the work.
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