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In this 'séance fiction’ Joan Crawford and Bette Davis perpetually wake to find themselves haunted by their own apparitions and terrorized by markers of time. This is the third work in Soda_Jerk’s Dark Matter Cycle, an ongoing series of video installations that are concerned with personal and historical experiences of time, and how these relations are mediated by screen technologies.

Hollywood Burn is an anti-copyright epic that pits a righteous league of video pirates against the evil tyrant Moses and his Copyright Commandments. Completed over 10 years in collaboration with artist Sam Smith, This project is constructed entirely from hundreds of samples plundered from the Hollywood archive. This project is freely available to view, share and screen.

Instead of taking Dorothy to Oz, the twister transports a young, hopeful Garland into the future where she encounters her disillusioned adult self. After the Rainbow is the second work in Soda_Jerk’s Dark Matter Cycle, an ongoing series of video installations that are concerned with personal and historical experiences of time, and how these relations are mediated by screen technologies.

The cultural matrix between tap and hip-hop is made visible though a trans-temporal dance battle staged between pioneering 1980’s hip-hop crew the New York City Breakers and the seminal 1940’s tap group Tip Tap & Toe. Tap Hop is part of Soda_Jerk’s The Lessons, a series of work that investigates the dis/continuities between disparate cultural moments.

Astro Black is a multi-channel video cycle informed by cultural theories of Afrofuturism. Taking the cosmic jazz musician Sun Ra as a point of departure, this ongoing speculative history seeks to draw out the nexus of science fiction and social politics in Black Atlantic culture.

In this 'séance fiction’ a young River Phoenix from the film The Explorers (1985) opens a wormhole to contact an older version of himself from My Own Private Idaho (1991). The Phoenix Portal is the first work in Soda_Jerk’s Dark Matter Cycle, an ongoing series of video installations that are concerned with personal and historical experiences of time, and how these relations are mediated by screen technologies.