Soda Jerk

Bio

Soda Jerk is an Australian artist duo who make sample-based films with a rogue documentary impulse. They are fundamentally interested in the politics of images; how they circulate, whom they benefit and how they can be undone. After living and working in New York for over a decade, they relocated to Europe in 2023. Soda Jerk’s archival practice traverses art and experimental cinema, and they have collaborated on projects with cyberfeminist collective VNS Matrix and electronic music group The Avalanches. Their video installations and multi-channel lecture performances have been presented at art institutions including the Centre Pompidou, Moderna Museet, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Whitworth Art Gallery, Barbican, Chisenhale Gallery, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, MCA Chicago, National Gallery of Art Washington DC, Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Arts Center, Pioneer Works, Video Bureau Guangzhou, Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong and Seoul Museum of Art. Their work has also screened extensively within film festivals and international cinema institutions such as the British Film Institute and Anthology Film Archives. Their recent feature Hello Dankness premiered at the 2023 Berlinale and won numerous cinema awards including Best Feature at the Atlanta Film Festival and Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, as well as the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award. It had its New York premiere at the Museum of the Moving Image as opening night film of Prismatic Ground, followed by a theatrical run at Manhattan’s iconic Film Forum. Hello Dankness follows their controversial political revenge fable Terror Nullius, which was disowned by its commissioning body, who called the film “UnAustralian”. The Guardian named the “dizzyingly ambitious satirical work” one of the best Australian movies of the decade.

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