The Body as Matrix. Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle

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 film by Maria Anna Tappeiner was created on the occasion of a comprehensive exhibition on the now completed Cremaster cycle, which was on view in the summer of 2002 at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne