PuSh Blog

Wayqeycuna

November 12, 2025

Image description: Outdoors against a backdrop of the misty mountains, two Indigenous men stare forwards with serious, engaging expressions. Both wrap bright blankets, embroidered exquisitely with bold colourful flowers, around their shoulders, covering their bodies and further emphasizing their serious faces.

Presenting Supporter: The McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund Memory // Ancestry // Resistance Like a quipu—the intricate system of knotted cords used by Andean peoples to record memory and knowledge—Wayqeycuna traces Argentinean artist Tiziano Cruz’s path back […]

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Trouble Score

November 12, 2025

Image description: Two performers stand close to each other, eyes looking upward pensively between beams of blue light, filled with swirling haze. One reaches her fingers into the light, like dipping into another realm.

Magic Realism // Myth // Ritual Part ritual, part pop concert, Trouble Score is a hallucinatory portrait of family myth refracted through the lens of magic realism. Weaving multi-layered text, vocals, sound samples, and live […]

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Bardaje

November 06, 2025

Image description: A solo performer is caught mid-movement, his head turned sideways and body curved. His striking attire leaves much of his tan skin exposed. He wears sleeves adorned with ayoyotes, which are ancestral seeds that rattle, a long beaded turquoise necklace looped many times around his neck, and a white loin cloth. His long hair, worn in a ponytail that streams forward from the top of his head, as well as his skin and attire, are covered with an uneven layer of pale ash.

Embodiment // Resistance // Ancestry Rooted in Zapotec understandings of muxheidad, Bardaje reanimates a word used to enforce difference with the gestures, memories, and cosmologies it once pushed to the margins. The work emerges from […]

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