Mr. Sicha writes in the NYT:
Fan Web sites, from Adam-Brody.com to Absolutely Zooey Deschanel, share certain traits: gushy tributes, copyright-infringing use of paparazzi shots, a whiff of stalker enthusiasm. A new site, cremasterfanatic.com, is unusual for the subject it obsesses over – the Conceptual Art star Matthew Barney – but otherwise it hews to the norm. It borrows pictures of Mr. Barney with his wife, the pop singer Bjork. It summarizes each of his five "Cremaster" films. It even posts tribute poetry:
Pearl filled baths
The pigeons flap
His cremaster relaxesBut Cremaster Fanatic is a fake. Or to put it more kindly, it's a parallel work of art. "I'm pretending to be a fan," said its creator, the New York artist Eric Doeringer, who wrote that haiku himself (as "David Kramer," one of many pseudonyms deployed on the site).
