The Art of Meta-morphosis: Julian Rosefeldt's 'Manifesto'

A gallery installation turned abstract cinematic text, Manifesto uses self-reflexivity, juxtaposition and the chameleonic talents of Cate Blanchett to repackage past treatises on art for the present day. Gabrielle O'Brien investigates the filmic and rhetorical techniques, as well as the deeper meanings they enable, in Julian Rosefeldt's feature.

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experimentation, theory, collage, juxtaposition, gender, subversion, contradiction.