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Date(s) - 04/01/2016 - 04/03/2016
11:30 AM - 10:00 PM
Location
Portland Museum of Art
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In 2007, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler began a new collaborative project inspired by American author Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel Ancient Evenings, set in pharaonic Egypt. The project was conceived as a nontraditional opera with a series of one-time-only live acts performed across the American landscape. The film River of Fundament combines documentation of these three live acts with scenes set in a reconstruction of Norman Mailer’s brownstone apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Barney and Bepler’s script reimagines Mailer as his own protagonist who reincarnates three times in three different bodies by magically entering the womb of his wife Hathfertiti.
“As with [the Cremaster cycle] and much of his work since the early days of his career, the [River of Fundament] functions on its own but also as a dynamo for spawning, shaping and superimposing meaning onto a body of sculpture. . . . You also get the sense — as vast as the scope of the “Cremaster” project was — that Mr. Barney is swinging for the fences with River of Fundament.”
—Randy Kennedy, The New York Times
River of Fundament will be shown in three parts all weekend, and all together on Sunday, April 3. The full schedule is below.
To purchase advance tickets, click on the desired date and time. Full weekend passes can be purchased in any link.
- 6:30pm Friday, April 1 — Part 1
- 2pm Saturday, April 2 — Part 2
- 4:20pm Saturday, April 2 — Part 3
- 11:30am Sunday, April 3 — Part 1
- 2pm Sunday, April 3 — Part 2
- 4:20pm Sunday, April 3 — Part 3
350 minutes | Directed by Matthew Barney