Matthew Barney is a sculptor who has created several video series of his work. The Cremaster Cycle is his most famous series, consisting of five parts that are all based on the idea of the ascension and descent of the cremaster muscle that holds the testes. He plays the main character known as The Apprentice. In the part that I watched, called The Order, The Apprentice seeks to climb the floors of the Guggenheim museum and encounters the following: sheep doing the can-can, two bands moshing, a woman that turns into a cat, and Richard Serra slopping hot petroleum jelly onto a metal plate. The heated jelly slowly flows down the spiraling walkway of the museum.
Barney has also been interested in baking large volumes of petroleum jelly.
He is married to Bjork, the Icelandic avant-garde singer. They worked together on a project called Drawing Restraint. The idea was to overcome an obstacle in order to complete a drawing, becoming stronger in the process. This was supposed to mirror how a muscle is torn under strain and then heals back stronger than before. They have a child named Isadora.
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