Art

If you attended the outdoor screening of Matthew Barney's film Cremaster 5 in Meeting House Square earlier this year, you'll know what to expect next Thursday evening, when Cremaster 1 and 4 are being shown. Confusingly, the latter is the first in the series. More confusing still, it's set on the Isle of Man and cross-cuts between a dandyish, tap-dancing satyr attended by three formidable, androgynous fairies, and two motorcycle teams competing in their own TT race. Cremaster 1 features a Busby Berkeley-style chorus going through its paces in an Idaho football stadium while bored flight attendants, dressed by Isaac Mizrahi, hang about in two Goodyear blimps above. In both cases the ritualistic drama is cloaked in an impenetrable, surreal symbolism, apparently relating to sexual differentiation, ovulation, fertilisation and birth, though not necessarily in that order. Tickets are available, free of charge, from Temple Bar Properties, 18 Eustace St, Temple Bar.