tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52416192011-10-18T20:12:37.968-07:00Matthew Barney EnvyWell, I've never even seen any of Matthew Barney's work, except some pictures on-line on the New York Times and the Village Voice web pages and yet I just want to be as wonderful as all the critics say he is.Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1097247577457467422004-10-08T07:56:00.000-07:002004-10-08T07:59:37.456-07:00so here's a double reason for envy. i was embarking on a story about candomble when i decided to do a web search and i found this about matthew barney. i can't help but feel he's encroaching on my territory and he's doing it better than me. but fuck, i don't own brazil, i'll just have to come to terms with that. but here's the other thing, i doubt i could get away with an article like this for Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1083608563254026452004-05-03T11:22:00.000-07:002004-05-03T11:26:46.826-07:00matthew barney's got a picture in the new yorker
envy
Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1083608013809988022004-05-03T11:13:00.000-07:002004-05-03T11:17:37.500-07:00radizan gilberto - criminal mythologist
what does he do?
it's a she.
okay, but what does she do?
listens to the alibis.Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1083346959081183612004-04-30T10:42:00.000-07:002004-04-30T10:46:50.686-07:00no money, no progress
if you don't bother to update your weblog nothing happens to it.
does anyone ever look?
probably not.
last night i had a cool dream
i was getting it on with ana rosa - i don't remember too many details, though
and all of a sudden her husband showed up and i had to hide in the closet -- dragger
then there was this scene where he was putting things in or getting things out ofMichael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1079723045846529252004-03-19T11:04:00.000-08:002004-03-19T11:07:22.356-08:00Here's my man Pedro Varela, who was in Salvador da Bahia, explaining how Matthew Barney's trio eletrico was percieved:
It was criticized for being too "intellectual" and it
was, but at least it was different and it had a theme
about it (he paraded with hughe mud-covered tractors).
The sound was interesting and the fact that there is
room for "new" stuff is what I liked about it. I
thought thisMichael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1078512742619520542004-03-05T10:52:00.000-08:002004-03-05T10:56:07.530-08:00Hold that thought. It's not as far out as it might seem, the idea that Matthew Barney could on some sort of conceptual plane, at least, envy me. I remember a couple of years back, well, more than that like in 1998 when I was heading off to Roraima to cover fires in the Amazon. The night before I was leaving I interviewed Siba from Mestre Ambrosio and I mentioned I was heading off to the Amazon Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1078512341648250272004-03-05T10:45:00.000-08:002004-03-05T10:53:12.983-08:00Okay, so I wrote a couple of articles where i mentioned Matthew Barney -- so who knows? Maybe our names are both in print on the same page somewhere. I'm going to reprint the articles here. Okay, now here's the thing, Matthew Barney went to Bahia and mounted -- for lack of a better verb -- a trio eletrico. These are basically sound trucks but the thing is his was real strange -- for Bahia, at Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1077136707430028252004-02-18T12:38:00.000-08:002004-02-18T12:43:23.920-08:00Well, it seems Matthew is in Bahia with his girlfriend Bjork. He's porking Bjork? I don't really envy him that. But what irks me is that he's in my neck of the woods discovering stuff I've discovered long ago and now he's going to appropriate it, put it on DVD maybe, while I have done nothing with it. My book proposal is dead in the water and all I got is this stupid statue. But that's life rightMichael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1075813118910638122004-02-03T04:57:00.000-08:002004-02-03T05:00:55.606-08:00i got a call last night from my friend gordon. he asked if i knew who matthew barney is. pssheww!!!Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-1060805249238766552003-08-13T13:07:00.000-07:002004-02-18T12:39:10.920-08:00i just found this in the village voice and thought it was kind of funny:
by Michael Atkinson
August 13 - 19, 2003
Renaissance man Matthew Barney is such a busy artistic powerhouse these days (Cremaster 3's climactic movement, "The Order," is out this month on DVD), we thought we'd lend him a hand with the scenarios for the next Cremaster "cycle." No, thank you, Mr. Barney!
--------------Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-944493602003-05-16T07:06:00.000-07:002003-05-16T07:06:10.450-07:00yeah, so i went to see the matthew barney exhibit at the guggenheim. i went with my dad, and to my surprise he liked it. it reminded me of some of the exhibits that really turned me on to art in the early seventies, when i was like six or seven, but i'll get back to that.
this morning i was watching mtv - brasil (cause that's the one i get here) and the chico science video for maracatu atomico Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-925894992003-04-14T09:09:00.000-07:002003-04-14T09:09:10.450-07:00Going to New York City, New York City here I come. There's a Matthew Barney exhibition there and I'm a going to see me one.
Yes, it's true, I'm going to New York and I'm going to see the Matthew Barney exhibition at the Guggenheim, then I'll know precisely why I envy Matthew Barney so much. Or maybe it'll be like "er, this guy kind of sucks." And I won't envy him anymore and this page will just Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-923844642003-04-10T14:20:00.000-07:002003-04-10T14:20:58.920-07:00Well, yesterday was such a busy day I didn't have much time to envy Matthew Barney. Yes, there are times in my life when things feel like they're on a roll -- heading cool places. Arrgh, I'll write more about this later.Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-922912182003-04-09T07:21:00.000-07:002003-04-09T07:23:52.000-07:00Boy it's just getting fast and furious lately, I showed sent an e-mail with a link to this blog from my little sister and here's what see sent back:
"First and foremost Michaelangelo [I THINK SHE'S REFERING TO ME HERE], Matthew Barney is my god. Gee
Willikers, I've seen cremaster I, II, III, and IV. It seems that Michael has just worked his way up the totem pole."
And I only recently heard of Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-919868412003-04-04T07:40:00.000-08:002003-04-04T07:40:12.403-08:00I just started this blog yesterday and already I'm a little ticked off. It seems the template I choose doesn't have a headline so you can't see the name of it just a bunch of fruit. Matthew Barney certainly wouldn't have made the same mistake but I guess that's why I envy him. The name of the blog for all you new comers is MATTHEW BARNEY envy and that's what should be up on the top of the page Michael Astornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5241619.post-919345572003-04-03T12:29:00.000-08:002003-04-03T12:45:54.000-08:00Let's face it, I don't know shit about Matthew Barney and I want to be just like him. I read these reviews where the critics just ate him up and well, it seems he can do no wrong. I hear he was an athlete; what does that mean I wonder? Was he a discus thrower or a biathelete? Does it mean he can eat all those other artists who were non-athletic nerds for lunch? I think about this a lot when I'm Michael Astornoreply@blogger.com