Good Evening, All Current Art Is Fake

January 13, 2017 10:19 AM

The first trailer for MANIFESTO, a feature length art firm made from a video installation by Julian Rosefeld staring Cate Blanchett and 13 manifestos.
posted by The Whelk (9 comments total)

psssh my kid could play 13 different roles in Manifesto trailer
posted by beerperson at 10:36 AM on January 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

oh my gawd we went to see this "live" at the armory nyc
it was amazeballs
all current art is fake. but cate aint
cate blanchett is artgod incarnate
all hail cate
that is all
posted by lalochezia at 10:47 AM on January 13, 2017 [6 favorites]

Who else but Cate the Great could pull this off? I'll be watching!

That clean-room suit makes me think of her wonderful, tiny, uncredited role as Janine in Hot Fuzz!
posted by mochapickle at 10:54 AM on January 13, 2017 [1 favorite]

Dadaism as a funeral for civilization made me cry.
posted by The Whelk at 10:57 AM on January 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

Saw this at the Park Ave Armory last week and was suitably impressed. About 9-10 minutes into the cycle all the various screens sync up and all the Cate Blanchett characters directly face the viewer while the camera does a close-up framing her face while she drops her voice into a monotone. Although it is just a jumble of words, it never failed to jolt me. The Armory does so many interesting large scale works.
posted by Falconetti at 1:16 PM on January 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

"ART
REQUIRES
TRUTH
NOT
SINCERITY"

mmmkay...
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:46 PM on January 13, 2017

Flavorwire description of the installation. Looking forward to the film.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 5:47 PM on January 13, 2017

Also saw this at Park Avenue Armory and, if art makes you feel something this definitely succeeds. Several are gorgeous and weird meditations (the clean suit one was hypnotic) and some are so on the nose that I kind of shrugged (conceptual art), and several were somehow appropriately cringeworthy. But the monotone monologues all were pitched to harmonize in a way that made the whole piece something pretty awesome to experience.

But in some ways it was also like an episode of How It's Made without the insipid canned music and instead Cate Blanchett riding a scooter.
posted by abulafa at 5:56 PM on January 13, 2017 [3 favorites]

But in some ways it was also like an episode of How It's Made without the insipid canned music and instead its Cate Blanchett riding a scooter.

*dies happy*
posted by lalochezia at 9:27 PM on January 13, 2017 [1 favorite]