He fought seven more times winning on each occasion before on 1 August 2003 travelling to the United Kingdom and defeating England's Matthew Barney for the Commonwealth super middleweight title.
In 2005, a collaboration between Leila and Björk from the greatest hits tour called "Nameless" (subsequently titled "Storm") appeared on the Matthew Barney film and soundtrack of Drawing Restraint 9.
It reveals Barney's process in creating Drawing Restraint 9, a cinematic "piece" that combines a whaling vessel; 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly; and traditional Japanese rituals into a fantasy love story.
In 2005, she performed in three songs by the Icelandic musician Björk, for the soundtrack album to Drawing Restraint 9, a film by Björk's contemporary media artist boyfriend Matthew Barney, about Japanese culture and whaling.
Sibylle (1998)-- Photograph of a female model lying on a table, whose body has been affected by cultural references to Matthew Barney, Cindy Sherman, Pablo Picasso, and others, resulting a creepily mutilated creature.
For the cover of Filmmaker Magazine (USA) she wrote The Genius of the System, a profile of multi-media artist Matthew Barney under an National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant.
Paul Boering has gone on to form Beaut with Marti Domination (ex-Blacklips Performance Cult, Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle).
Many performers are linked to this contamination between flesh and technology: from Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, COUM Transmissions, Leigh Bowery, Stelarc, Marcel.lì Antunez Roca and Matthew Barney.
Gospel of Matthew | Matthew | Matthew Flinders | Matthew McConaughey | Matthew Broderick | Barney Miller | St Matthew Passion | Matthew Barney | Matthew Fox | Matthew Prior | Matthew Arnold | Matthew Sweet | Matthew Perry | Matthew C. Perry | Barney Fife | Matthew the Apostle | Matthew Herbert | Barney Frank | Matthew Prior (cricketer) | Matthew Wolfenden | Matthew Shipp | Matthew Pearl | Matthew Fox (actor) | Matthew Boulton | Matthew Shepard | Matthew Pinsent | Matthew Parker | Matthew of Ajello | Matthew Lillard | Matthew Fontaine Maury |
The core of the 1,200-work collection is art from 1960 to the present, including important works by Ellsworth Kelly, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Susan Rothenberg, Barbara Kruger, and Matthew Barney.
In recent editions the book had features on artists such as Anton Corbijn, Larry Sultan, Matthew Barney, Terry Richardson, Ron Mueck, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Peter Lindbergh, Albert Watson, Desiree Dolron, Bettina Rheims, Diana Scheunemann, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Andres Serrano.
Some relationships with artists—for example, Matthew Barney, Robert Gober, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Sherrie Levine, and Claes Oldenburg—have extended over many years and encompassed multiple projects, and the collection often reflects that commitment through deep holdings that follow the shifts and turns of a whole career.