![]() TRINH T. MINH-HA with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa & Patricia Alvarez.Grand, Pleasurable, and Accessible By Susan Yung.I Want to Tell You Some Things By Erica Getto.Family as a Battlefield nora chipaumire at the Brooklyn Academy of Music By Ivan Talijancic.Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events.Diary of a Mad Composer By George Grella.NOTHING IN, NOTHING OUT T.C. BOYLE with Catherine LaSota.Down on the Cutting Room Floor By John Madera.All the Furious Living and all the Furious Dying By Tony Leuzzi.Selling Our Cities By Artie Niederhoffer.Theres No Place Like Time, or The Art of Trash Diaries, Curiosity Cabinets, & Determined Noticing LANCE and ANDI OLSEN in conversation with Renée E.Melissa Yancys Exacting, Precise World By Weston Cutter.Little Moments CHARLES BOCK in conversation with Joseph Salvatore.Kafkas Konundrum: Narcissism, Self-Surveillance, and Unreality By Christine Cheon.The Seer: James Baldwin and the (Death) Mask in Immarginations By Tracie Morris.Courting the End of the World: Heeding James Baldwins Invitation to take up a Dangerous Morality By James T.The General is in the House By Patricia Spears Jones.Each of Us Contains the Other: James Baldwins Steadfast Morality By Claudia Roth Pierpont.∺ House Built on Bondage Cannot Stand By Chris Winks.We Pluck this Flower Safely: James Baldwin and the Present, Nettle Danger Guest Critic: Rich Blint James Baldwin and the Present, Nettle Danger">.DONALD MOFFETT Any Fallow Field By Phong Bui.BRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN A Retrospective By Joyce Beckenstein.MATTHEW BARNEY Facility of Decline By Darragh McNicholas.TARYN SIMON An Occupation of Loss By David A.BRUCE CONNER Its All True By Matthew Biro.Mall and Mosque: Authority Appraised and Approved SOPHIA AL-MARIA Black Friday By Mira Dayal.historical snapshot Interview with Salvador Allende produced by Roberto Rossellini.MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES with Maya Harakawa.The pornographic actor Bobbi Starr appears as a garage manager, and Lila Downs appears as a ranchera singer. Aimee Mullins and Barney portray the Egyptian Gods Isis and Osiris respectively. Elaine Stritch portrays a eulogist, while Debbie Harry portrays a singing guest at the wake. Joan La Barbara portrays Mailer's real-world widow. Paul Giamatti portrays Ptahhotep (another character in Ancient Evenings). Hathfertiti is variously portrayed by Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Madyn Greer Coakley at different stages of her life. Through this, the narrative also incorporates American car dealerships, drum and bugle corps, "stomp teams", American performance artist James Lee Byars' piece "The Death of James Lee Byars", Los Angeles culture, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and alchemy. All three cars are transmogrified through modern industrial processing and recycling to symbolize the regeneration and reincarnation of Mailer. Simultaneously, Mailer's body is represented as three generations of American cars: a 1967 Chrysler Crown Imperial (referencing Barney's Cremaster 3), a 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am and finally a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. With each reincarnation, he wakes up in a river of feces running beneath his Brooklyn Heights apartment, where a funeral gathering is also being hosted. Writer Norman Mailer, becoming a protagonist of his own, reincarnates three times during and after his wake into three separate bodies, each portrayed in succession by Dave Bald Eagle, Milford Graves, and Mailer's son John Buffalo Mailer, the last failing to survive through the womb and body of his wife, Hathfertiti (a character in Ancient Evenings). The film was released on Februin a limited theatrical release and through exhibitions at museums in several countries. It has been described as a "eulogy for Mailer". ![]() Along with the main narrative, it includes other elements from performance, sculpture, and opera. The film follows Norman Mailer (played by three actors over the course of the film) as he travels through three reincarnations, enduring the seven mythological states of his soul, loosely based on his own novel, Ancient Evenings (1983). River of Fundament was produced over 2007 to 2012, being the final product of a series of performances that accumulated into becoming the film's narrative. The film features Barney, Dave Bald Eagle, Milford Graves, John Buffalo Mailer, Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Madyn Greer Coakley, Paul Giamatti, Shara Nova, Joan La Barbara, Elaine Stritch, Debbie Harry and Aimee Mullins. ![]() It was produced by Barney and the Laurenz Foundation, and is loosely based on American author Norman Mailer's 1983 novel Ancient Evenings. River of Fundament is a 2014 operatic experimental film written and directed by American contemporary artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney, and co-directed by longtime collaborator Jonathan Bepler.
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