A Park Avenue Armory Production | Co-commissioned by RISING
Euphoria
By Julian Rosefeldt
FRI 2 — SUN 18 JUNE
- Entry every 60 minutes
- A full cycle of the work is 117 minutes
- Pay-as-you-wish pricing
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Experience
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”
— Fredric Jameson
Julian Rosefeldt, the master artist-filmmaker who gave us a chameleonic Cate Blanchett with Manifesto, transforms Melbourne Town Hall into an arena swallowed by screens.
A life-sized choir encircles you at ground level while jazz drummers duel from above. Acclaimed actors like Giancarlo Esposito and Virginia Newcomb narrate a surreal epic—delivering musings from some of history’s most influential economists, writers and thinkers from Snoop Dogg, Warren Buffett and Ayn Rand to Angela Davis and Mark Fisher. Homeless men discuss economics and executives do acrobatics in a bank lobby. Cate’s back too. This time she’s a tiger stalking the supermarket aisles.
It’s a vision that pummels capitalism with the excess it asks for, then waits for the dust to settle.
Wander in and feel the rumble.
Artistic Team
Written, Directed, Produced | Julian Rosefeldt
Music | Samy Moussa
Executive Producer | Wassili Zygouris
Executive Producer | Kyiv Anastasiya Bukovska, Tatyana Kurmaz, Family Production
Executive Producer—New York | Christian Detres, See The Tree Productions
Executive Producer—Sofia | Konstantina Manolova, Solent Film
Director of Photography | Christoph Krauss
Set Design | Nadja Götze
Costume Design | Daniela Backes, Bina Daigeler
Hair/ Make-Up | Julia Böhm, Katharina Thieme, Sonia Salazar-Delgado
Choreography, Bank Scene | Richard Siegal
Sound Recording | David Hilgers, Oliver Göbel, Ludwig Fiedler
Sound Design | Thomas Appel
Editing | Bobby Good
Dramaturgy | Tobias Staab
Text collages | Julian Rosefeldt, Tobias Staab
Dramaturgical advice | Janaina Pessoa
Assistant Director | Denis Sonin, Ires Jung
Casting | Cassandra Han
Musical Concept | Julian Rosefeldt
Composition | Samy Moussa
Additional Music | Cassie Kinoshi
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Director | Dianne Berkun Menaker
Music Production | Ed Williams, Dianne Berkun Menaker
Sound engineer music recording | Isaiah Abolin
With Giancarlo Esposito, Virginia Newcomb, Ayesha Jordan, Kate Strong, Jeff Wood, Erik Hansen, Tim Williams, Jeff Burrell, Robert Bronzi, Rocio Rodriguez-Inniss, Dora Zygouri, Esther Odumade, Tia Murrell, Asa Ali, Luis Rosefeldt, Richard Siegal, Nena Sorzano, Corey Scott-Gilbert, Jared Brown, and the voice of Cate Blanchett
And Terri Lyne Carrington, Peter Erskine, Yissy García, Eric Harland, Antonio Sanchez, as well as the singers of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Supporters
Commissioned and produced by Park Avenue Armory. Co-commissioned by Holland Festival, Ruhrtriennale Festival of the Arts and RISING. In Association with Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte. Supported by ACMI and Goethe-Institut. Euphoria is supported through the Melbourne City Revitalisation Fund – a $200 million partnership of the Victorian Government and the City of Melbourne.
Image Credits
Stills and video: © Julian Rosefeldt
Installation imagery: Nicholas Knight. Courtesy of the Park Avenue Armory