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born 1967 in San Francisco, US lives and works in New York, US Formulas Fatal to the Flesh - On the Sound of the Cremaster Cycle
While it's visually impossible to keep up with five monitors - each showing one of the Cremaster films -, sounds are easily absorbed. Close listening offers a new point of entry, a new architecture, or at least another way to view the complexity of the Cremaster. It's central, too, to a discussion of a field sensibility, issues of noise, performance, and collaboration. Matthew Barney has said he used principles of biology to organize Cremaster and as a way to introduce conflict and narrative into the system (five states connected by a single line). In the five-channel Cremaster, each film has a role, though unlike a biological system, these roles continually shift. In the five-channel Cremaster installation, the films function as a team without a prioritized 'individual'. A film alone is a soloist, five an operatic collage. The films have different running times, so overlaps and associations remain in flux. [...] Brandon Stosuy
 Matthew Barney, Cremaster Cycle, 2007 5-channel video sculpture with 5 flat screens, color, sound Unique edition
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