The 80 - minute performance included a sculpture of a smashed - to - smithereens 1967 Chrysler; Barney performing with a dog sitting in a harness
on top of his head; Aimee Mullins, the famous no - legged athlete who co-starred in one of Barney's epic Cremaster films, outfitted in a full - length glittering silver ball gown
on a
stretcher atop the car; a small marching band in terrorist masks and what looked like IRA military uniforms; Barney methodically
removing bits of the car's engine and putting them in these weird funeral urns; and, last but not least, a gigantic bull garlanded in flowers with its long, huge horns painted gold.
He often
removes them entirely from the
stretcher and displays them in a draped fashion or wraps them
on top of frames in the case of the record - setting beveled edge work, which was purchased by a private American collector.
The «Torqued Panels» emerged out of the desire to
remove the physical structure of the paintings (i.e. the
stretcher frame), and to focus more intently
on only surface.