Closing DOXA with a high-concept bang, German artist Julian Rosefeldt unleashes Cate Blanchett to recite from a collage of (mostly) 20th-century art manifestos while taking on 13 different ironically pitched personas. The effect can be hilarious, as in the whey-faced widow who bellows “From now on we want to shit in different colours!” at a funeral procession (from a Tristan Tzara Dadaist tract), or the rather brilliantly executed segment in which an anchor and a reporter (both Blanchett) debate minimalism in the frigid tones of the television news industry. As a conservative southern mom, an imperious Russian choreographer, or a wild-eyed homeless Glaswegian, Blanchett is clearly having a blast. Who wouldn’t, given how ecstatically alive and provocative so many of these words still sound? 

Georgia Straight, April 2017