"That Push" is the 2011 Senior Thesis show of Yana Tutunik – a CalArts BFA in the Visual Arts. The show deals with what it means to have a studio art practice. Yana also asserts, throughout the show, that the push that drives artistic practice is the same push that drives human sexuality. She inextricably links the vocabulary and emotional motives of sex with the vocabulary and emotional motives of creating and viewing art.

Working with Yana we created 3 separate posters for the event. Each one more secretive and seductive than the last. Each also uses the same image of hands, but in different ways. This was another call back to "That Push", where Yana used very simple materials (repeatedly) to create beautiful and eery sculptures. Once again tying the idea of art and sex, in a deeper more conceptual manner. We also created a 6-page Tri-folding zine/booklet to hold reductive poems Yana created from the text Simulacra And Simulation— the important text by Jean Baudrillard. The booklets were given away at the exhibition, and functioned as the poetic relief, as well something interested visitors could take home and use to digest the heady show.
That Push was shown at CalArts from April 25-29th.