The Body as a matrix. Matthew Barney's cremaster cycle
Description
With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world that surreally combines sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology as it organically evolves. In this program, Barney, Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector, and others deconstruct the Cycle's filming and subsequent translation into sculptural installations. The locations, characters, and symbols that organize the Cycle films; the Cycle installations as spatial content carriers and extensions of the performances; and objectification of the body and undifferentiated sexuality are addressed, as are the intricacies of costuming, makeup, and sculpting with Barney's signature materials: plastic, metal, and Vaseline. Contains nudity and mature themes.
Runtime
53 min
Series
Subjects
- Popular culture (304)
- Sculpture (61)
- Motion pictures (857)
- Art, Modern (388)
- Decorative arts (49)
- Handicraft (35)
- Installations (Art) (64)
- Industrial arts (49)
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Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c2002
Database
Films on Demand
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