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Sticking it to the man for the past ten years this sweatshop of Cambridge artists uses paint, words, cameras, computers, sewing machines, found objects, televisions, pens and esophagus’s for making aht. A generally rebellious lot their work is highly collaborative and attempts to break the mold of the ill-approachable and overpriced art scene.

Here is what original member Archduke Raz GoUsa has to say about Shuddemup: Stream of consciousness art making has, in the last century, become a tool with which artists strive to unlock the mysteries of the mind.  This is an undertaking championed by the Surrealist and Expressionist movements in art, as well as the literature of the Beats. But even in these more recent and heady times, this technique has yet to reach its full potential.  For under the duress of one’s human singularity, no matter how much one tries to escape it, one’s creations are always hampered by the desires and prejudices of the self.  We at Shuddemup have established, over time, a way to extradite our artwork from this age-old failure of mankind: by working in concert to blend our skills and intuitions.  We create works that we hope will redefine not just art but truth itself, through sublimated consensus and the will of the group.  As well call it: The Joint. Collaboration has been prevalent in art from the time of cave paintings.  But only recently, through the freedom of post-modern art making, has the true force of The Joint been unleashed.  Drawing, painting and building together under the strict rule of anarchy, we are able to create objects unencumbered by personal intent, works which instead evolve in accordance with a higher power’s desires.  Call this what you will, Chaos, God or the Forces of the Unknown, it presides over our works and pushes us forward toward discovery and uncertainty alike.  Through collaboration our paintings attain an aesthetic and iconographic knowledge that, alone, no one of us could truly claim.  The works we create are eclectic in style and media, and range in scale and scope.  All are tied to this common principle, however: Through The Joint, we Shuddemupers hope to escape the ego’s eternal influence and instead access the über-mind; tapping into the true flow of nature, myth and space. 

Marc Curry, www.curryinteractive.com
Photoshop, Flash demonstration

"Noelle is from Jersey. She paints in oil on plywood as much as she can in her cramped bedroom. She models for other peoples' art to make little bits of dough because nobody buys her work. She lives in Brighton with a short, stocky, indecisive Pakistani girl. Her subjects are usually people because they fascinate her most. "