Arts & Culture Magazine - November/December 2007 - (Page 67) In complexity of symbolism, number of individuals involved, production quality and conceptual daring, nothing in recent times can equal the performance art of Matthew Barney. His epic, five part Cremaster cycle from 1994 to 2002 is a series of film performances with their own aesthetic system. These five feature length films explore the process of creation. The cycle unfolds not just cinematically, but also through photographs, drawings, sculptures and installations created by the artist. The title refers to the male cremaster muscle, which controls testicular contractions in response to external stimuli. The performances are replete with anatomical allusions to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic process of sexual differentiation. Cremaster 1 represents the most “ascended” or undifferentiated state, Cremaster 5 the most “descended” or differentiated state. In this work, Barney looks beyond biology as a way to explore creative form, employing narrative models from other areas of enquiry, such as biography, mythology and geology. These observations are about an art form that continues to grow and about artists who used and continue to use performance as a vehicle to create works that take life as their subject away from the glare of media. This is a brief record of efforts to assimilate more and more play and pleasure in art, which observes less and less the traditional limits of art objectmaking. More consequently, it is an art form that reflects the desire of many artists to make art that functions outside the confines of museums and galleries. It is an art form that has not yet fully articulated its defining sensibilities that are its vitality and promise for the future. arts and culture magazine : : 67
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