https://artsinsociety.com/2019-conference, 10 - 23 Ocak 2019
Matthew Barney's retrospective display titled “Cremaster
Cycle” in the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003) presented us with an
incredible opportunity to review the controversy over the phenomenon ‘Culture’ analyzed
by the neo-marxist philosophers such as Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Slavoj Žižek. The display mainly promised
to re-mobilize the meta-narrative as the end of the two opposing forces, while
it also focused on a different narrative structure by replacing the
heteronormative values and anthropocentric points of the Cremaster Cycle on
gender and human phenomena. This had to do with not only the review of the
orientation allowing the revision of the problems such as social inequality
breaking down the masses, classes and nations in the past and that of local and
micro-political discourses, morality and self today, but also the emphasis on
hybrid formations based on such different perspectives as the human / animal /
plant, mythological, hermeneutical, genealogical, etc.