Cremaster 5
is opera, myth, epic, video
a West Prague Side Story in five parts
by Matthew Barney disrobed and shackled
as Magician (Houdini? Or Death?) as Diva
scaling a proscenium beanstalkish vine like ova ascending the Fallopian tubes and as Giant, Satyrlike creature bourne of Jacobin pigeons
And the return of her Ursula Andress, she who would be Natalie Wood nee Maria's fake soprano's kiss.
His vision in search of origin, of creation or birth and rebirth as baroque copulation becomes her voice, a new species from an asexual process, another rite of passage in his continuing cycle of new gender and new life.