The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle new born

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.

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The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle Cast

Name	Character
Matthew Barney He was 57, now 57 years old	as Himself

The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle Crew

Name	Department