After spending more than a month in Hong Kong, our crazily talented and award-winning FUSE Residency artist group Soda_Jerk is going to perform for us here in Hong Kong for the first time!

The Carousel is a live video essay that summons the séance fictions of film. It presents an alternate history of cinema as a burial crypt where we collectively commune with the dead. Within this work Soda_Jerk use live narration to navigate an eclectic matrix of film samples; combining media theory, mysticism, deconstruction and techno horror.

Their collaborative video work with Australian electronic musician TheAvalanches – TheWas, will beloop-screened at Videotage during 5 – 20 January. Do drop by to check out howthe talented video artist visualize the music in the musician’s latest albumWildflower into a magical video with numerous nostalgic samples.

22 December 2016 – 20 January 2017

LIVE VIDEO ESSAY – The Carousel
Date: 22 December 2016
Time: 18:30 – 19:30

LOOPED SCREENING – The Was
Date: 5 – 20 January 2017 (Monday to Friday)
Time: 12:00 – 19:00

Venue:
Videotage. Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan

Artist Info

Formed in Sydney in 2002,Soda_Jerk is a 2-person art collective that approaches sampling as an alternateform of history-making. Working at the intersection of documentary andspeculative fiction, their archival practice has taken the form of videoinstallations, cut-up texts, screensavers and lecture performances. Soda_Jerkare based in New York where their work was recently shown in a dedicatedprogram at Anthology Film Archives. They have collaborated with Australiancollectives The Avalanches and VNS Matrix, and exhibited work in museums,cinemas, festivals and torrent sites. Soda_Jerk are the recipients of the IanPotter Moving Image Commission and will premiere their new film Terror Nulliusat the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in 2018.