![]() Featuring an illuminating introduction by Nancy Spector an essay by Maggie Nelson on the works’ exploration of psychology, bodies, image-making, narrative, and abstraction and a new text by the artist, this generously illustrated volume includes previously unpublished artist’s sketches, behind-the-scenes photographs, research material, and video stills. Titled after former football player Jim Otto, the series explores the training, discipline, and physical limits of the body alongside questions of sexual difference and desire. Matthew Barney: OTTO Trilogy is the first book to trace the progression of three significant early projects-Facility of INCLINE, Facility of DECLINE, and OTTOshaft- and to reveal the narrative system that links them. It was definitely…I didn’t scream it, I said it softly.Matthew Barney Matthew Barney: OTTO Trilogy 2016Ĭelebrated for works blending performance, video, and sculpture, Matthew Barney has created complex narratives that emerge across series since his earliest exhibitions. I like the place where it was, it was quite soft. ![]() “History of Touches is about the archive a couple has gathered, something they shared, an emotional archive.” It’s the first time Bjork has dropped an F-bomb in a song too. With Possibly Maybe each verse was like a month, it was nine months,” she explains. I guess History of Touches is the archival element of a relationship. History of Touches is also reminiscent of Possibly Maybe’s lines from the album Post, “Your eruptions and disasters I keep calm admiring your lava, I keep calm.” Bjork doesn’t feel the same way. The song History of Touches is a harrowing listen once you realise this is Bjork’s shrine to a disintegrated relationship. The album title Vulnicura can be broken down into the Latin words “vulnus”, meaning “inflicting wounds”, then “cura” means “care” and “cure.” It’s a before and after, fixing that stubborn timepiece. The lion in this case is Bjork, she hangs Barney out to dry once again after he evidently did the same to her. This triggers memories of her Triumph Of a Heart clip where she raves and misbehaves and comes home to a none-too-happy partner…a giant cat (of course). Björk spoke about enjoying winding down after her recording sessions and relaxing with friends. ![]() Psychologically and physically, it has a stubborn clock attached to it. She goes into more detail “It’s the wound and the healing of the wound. Note the album cover has a very unsubtle picture of the enigmatic elf with a gash down her front, a look of shock in her eyes and questioning, how-could-you, outstretched hands. First I was worried it would be too self-indulgent but then I felt it might make it even more universal and hopefully the songs could be a help, a crutch to others and prove how biological this process is,” she offered. “So the anthropologist in me sneaked in and I decided to share them as such. like three songs before a break up and three after,” she wrote. I was kinda surprised how thoroughly I had documented this in pretty much accurate emotional chronology. “I guess I found in my lap one year into writing it a complete heartbreak album. Which barely makes a lick of sense.Īll becomes clear two days after the interview when Vulnicura leaks and she takes to Facebook to let it all out. Is that it? He seems to have ran off with a “sometimes lesbian” artist he was working with, Elizabeth Peyton. The meaning behind this album cover as Björk explained is that it’s a wound itself and then the healing of it both psychologically and physically.
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