Cate Blanchett Stars in Julian Rosefeldt's Upcoming Australian-Commissioned Artwork
See the many faces of the Academy Award winner at ACMI and AGNSW.
You've seen plenty of Cate Blanchett on movie screens and stages around Australia, but now you'll be able to watch the Academy Award winner in Australia's art galleries too. Starring in German artist Julian Rosefeldt’s latest video piece, Blanchett is set to be the face of Manifesto, seeing its world premiere at the Australian Centre For the Moving Image on Wednesday, December 9 before heading to Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Manifesto is a series of powerful monologues, performed by Blanchett and screened via thirteen channels. Each monologue is a manifesto about art. Collectively, the speeches explore many of the ‘isms’ that have shaped art history, from Futurism and Dadaism to the Fluxus Movement, Situationism and Dogma 95. Rosefeldt pieced them together from the writings of numerous artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers, including Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Elaine Sturtevant, Sol LeWitt and Jim Jarmusch. He then had Cate deliver them from the mouths of unusual characters and in unexpected spaces.
Manifesto will show at ACMI until March 2016, before moving to the AGNSW, where it will screen from 28 May until 13 November. ACMI commissioned the work in conjunction with AGNSW, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin and Sprengel Museum, Hannover.
