Soda Jerk are premiering their first video work in four years: at Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide. It’s a follow-up to their political fable of 2018, which almost became overshadowed by its label of ‘un-Australian’ by its own funders. While this new work is deeply indebted to the trolling tonality of internet culture, it’s also very much rooted in cinema. It brings together Greek tragedy, stoner films and Broadway musicals to ruminate on the 2016 and 2020 United States elections—and the world we’ve lived through during the past six years.
