CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1 ...

• Norman Mailer
• Matthew Barney
• Lauren Pine
• Scott Ewalt
• Patty Griffin
• Michael Thompson
• Dave Lombardo
• Bruce Steele