River of Fandoment

Back in Tobias Wong’s day, we had to make screenshots with a camera, in a theater Zachary Wolfe’s NY Mag profile of Matthew Barney is limply framed around the artist’s waning celebrity. But with the absence of Barbara Gladstone and Marian Goodman, and a poignant collab with 85yo Clarissa Dalrymple, its ruminative undercurrent of the body, aging, and generational transition is much more interesting. And that confluence took me back to one of Eric Doeringer’s earliest masterpieces: Cremaster Fanatic, the internet’s biggest Matthew Barney Fan site. Which is now gone. Could Wolfe have been right all along? Zombie cremasterfanatic.com lives on at the Internet Archive, but I’m bringing at least one collection from the Matthew Barney fan art section back to life: the photos and bootleg video clip artist/designer Tobias Wong took inside a screening of The Cremaster Cycle in Vancouver sometime in the early 2000s. From the camera’s filenames, it looks like Wong watched the films in order: a pic…

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