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JULIAN ROSEFELDT AND CATE BLANCHETT IN LOS ANGELES

On the occasion of JULIAN ROSEFELDT—MANIFESTO—, the West Coast premiere of the work as a 13-channel film installation, Cate Blanchett and CAP UCLA director Kristy Edmunds will join the artist in conversation.

Drawing on the writings of Futurists, Dadaists, Fluxus artists, Suprematists, Situationists, and Dogme 95—including Yvonne Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Wyndham Lewis, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Kurt Schwitters, Elaine Sturtevant, Sol LeWitt, and Werner Herzog—Rosefeldt directed Blanchett through her investigation of thirteen different personas, “from a factory worker to a television news anchor to a homeless man, performing various historical artists’ manifestos.

“The work pays homage to the long tradition and literary beauty of public statements made by artists, and serves to provoke reflection upon the role of the artist as an active citizen in society today.”*

JULIAN ROSEFELDT, CATE BLANCHETT, and KRISTY EDMUNDS IN CONVERSATION*

Saturday, October 27, at 3 pm.

Hauser & Wirth

901 East 3rd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

Exhibition catalogue

(In 2017, Manifesto was commercially released as a 95-minute film, and played locally at the Monica Film Center.)

Cate Blanchett in Manifesto (3). Image credit: Julian Rosefeldt.

EDITH SITWELL AND WYNDHAM LEWIS

“The first public performance of Façade raised an uproar among such custodians of the purity of our language as firemen on duty at the hall and passing postmen who, on being lassoed and consulted by journalists, expressed the opinion that we were mad.” — Edith Sitwell, describing the 1923 performance of her poem Façade at Aeolian Hall, London.

Edith Sitwell—poet, performer, incomparable figure of the British avant-garde in the early-to mid-twentieth century—was the sister of writers and critics Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell.

“[The Sitwells were] a dazzling monument to the English scene… Had they not been there a whole area of life would have been missing.” — Cyril Connolly

See:  theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/07/edith-sitwell-great-dynasties-ian-sansom

Artist, publisher, novelist, radical Wyndham Lewis first embraced, then rejected the ubiquitous Sitwells, and brutally satirized them—along with the Bloomsbury group—in his novel The Apes of God.

WYNDHAM LEWIS—LIFE, ART, WAR, through January 1, 2018.

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS NORTH, The Quays, Trafford Wharf Road, Manchester, England.

iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/iwm-north/wyndham-lewis-life-art-war

From top:

Books about the Sitwells and by Wyndham Lewis.

Neil Porter and Edith Sitwell, rehearsing Façade, 1923.

Avant-garde siblings Sacheverell Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, and Osbert Sitwell, photographed by Cecil Beaton.

Edith Sitwell, photographed by Cecil Beaton.

Blast, the short-lived literary journal edited by Wyndham Lewis.

Chilean painter Álvaro Guevara—lover of Nancy Cunard and husband of Meraud Guinness—was a great passion of Edith’s life.

Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of Edith Sitwell, 1923.

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The Sitwells, brothers and sister, Oct.1 1929 -by Cecil Beaton [Sacheverell, Edith, Osbert]

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