December 9, 2015 - March 3, 2016
Julian Rosefeldt
Manifesto
ACMI – Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, AU (solo show)
Rosefeldt’s brand-new thirteen-channel work "Manifesto" questions the role of the artist in society today. Australian actor, Cate Blanchett, performs the manifestos as a series of striking monologues.
The installation draws on the writings of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus artists, Situtationists and Dogma 95, and the musings of individual artists, architects, dancers and filmmakers. Passing the philosophies of Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Elaine Sturtevant, Sol LeWitt, Jim Jarmusch, and other influencers through his lens, Rosefeldt has edited and reassembled a collage of artists’ manifestos.
"Manifesto" has been proudly commissioned by ACMI in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin and Sprengel Museum, Hannover.
The project was generously supported by the Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie, the Freunde des Sprengel Museum Hannover e.V. and the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, as well as by the co-producers, the Burger Collection Hong Kong and the Ruhrtriennale. "Manifesto" was produced in cooperation with the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Julian Rosefeldt, Manifesto, 2015 © Julian Rosefeldt, VG Bild-Kunst 2015