Everything today is viral. We’ve literally got a virus keeping us inside, news is spreading all over the internet and people are spreading around ideas - good and bad - super quickly. Viruses are crazy things. Once they find a host, they come alive - then they spread like wildfire.
Shit Art Club is infectious. There are aesthetic challenges, discussions about death and smiles all around all the time. We are living in the now and have a lot to good to share, but just need help spreading it. We found a lovely body of new friends at Pabst Blue Ribbon and 1700 Naud and they decided to host our dirty little crew of contagions for the month of September in a new project space they made during the pandemic called Blue Ribbon Studios. Monster Children and PBR reworked their event space into an artist residency and exhibition space and invited us in to make a beautiful mess.
Photo by Morgan Rindengan
The three of us at SAC were locked away grinding on art and music during the pandemic when we got a call up and invited in. We were thinking about how we started by creating our own universe and how it was time to leave our world and share the power of art, love, creativity and our certain romanticized reckless process that we seem manage to be able to balance on a razor’s edge. Our nasty little virus found a host with these cats in Chinatown and we came in guns blazing.
We knew that we had to shoot for the moon - so we aimed for Plant Welldus - because no one can fuck with us. We planned to build a rocket and set the controls for our new utopia. SAC enlisted the help of Lucy Eyears, Jake Joseph (BEASTMAN) and Demi Boelsterli - not cause we trust them, but because they trust us. We moved in on the first of September and continued our lockdown measures in a change of pace and scenery.
Fueled by free beer, alcoholic coffee and unconditional encouragement from each other, we were making art around the clock and engineered a spacecraft unlike any other.
The resulting show was aptly titled PARADIS WELLDUS and is now all on display for your viewing pleasure at 1700 Naud via appointment, or online via 3D walkthroughs.
All Works are available in the PARADIS WELLDUS STORE
We’ll see you fools in space.