Terror Nullius

Wednesday 18^th January, 6.00pm

Free event | Bookings essential

MA 15 + | 54mins

VENUE | Armidale Playhouse

TERROR NULLIUS is in conjunction with the exhibition Just Not Australian showing at New England Regional Art Museum. Presented in partnership with the Armidale Playhouse.

Part political satire, eco-horror and road movie, TERROR NULLIUS is a political revenge fable that offers an unwriting of Australian national mythologies. Binding together a documentary impulse with the bent plotlines of Australian film texts, Soda Jerk’s revisionist history opens a wilful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways.

The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee detention, flesh-eating sheep are recast as anti-colonial insurgents and a feminist motorcycle gang goes vigilante on Mel Gibson.

Soda Jerk bio

Formed in Sydney in 2002, and currently based in New York, Soda Jerk is a two-person art collective interested in the politics of images and ways of dismantling their inherent hierarchies. Predominantly working with video, their piece in Just Not Australian is an Ian Potter Moving Image Commission for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. A hybrid mashup of Australian film texts, this cinema-length work, titled TERROR NULLIUS, offers an unwriting of Australian national mythologies. Soda Jerk have undergone numerous residencies, including an Asialink Art residency to Hong Kong, a European Media Art Network Residency Exchange in Liverpool, UK, the International Studio and Curatorial Program residency in New York, and the Australia Council for the Arts’ Kunstlerhaus Bethanien residency in Berlin, among others.

Image credit: Soda Jerk, TERROR NULLIUS (video still), 2018, HD video, 54 minutes. Commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. Courtesy the artists.