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Spencer is back in the UK for
an installation for his party series in Cambridge on October 14.
This is a very small installation
and places are extremely limited.
Participation costs £200
per head and in return for this fee, each participant will receive a
limited edition (between 40-50)
hand-signed 11 x 14 " print.
Registration closes midnight
Sunday September 5. Funds must be received by Tuesday, September 7.
To register for this exciting opportunity, please email me.
Hot on the heels of The Big
Chill came this installation in Aurillac, France,
on the occasion of the Aurillac
International Street Theatre Festival's 25th anniversary.
Spencer actually held a series
of installations in three different locations over two mornings,
utilising black umbrellas for
the first location on a hill overlooking the town,
and transparent umbrellas for
the second location in the streets of the old town of Aurillac.
The third setup at the Aurillac
SNCF Railway Station, took place the following morning
with the participation of around
250 women, French flags of varying sizes, smoke machines
and 4 brave men, in a re-enactment
of Eugene Delacroix's famous painting
Liberty
Leading The People.
The artwork from the first day was revealed on the following evening by the Hotel de Ville.
The Austrian Kleine
Zeitung was the first news service to report the installation,
with a generous slideshow of
photos by Sascha Prabitz.
More from the French press:
Ladepeche
| Rue
89 | Libération.FR
| Le
Parisien | La
Montagne
iLACA Web Magazine: Report
and Interview
with Spencer
The
official registration page is here.
An estimated 700 or so revellers
at The Big Chill, and a handful of people who were definitely not there
for the music, shed their clothes
in favour of body paint for Spencer's installation at The Big Chill Festival.
This was a first for Spencer,
and in his brief he said: "I know what I am doing, but I don't know what
I am
doing...", before dividing
the volunteers in to five colour groups: Yellow, Pink, Teal, Blue and Black.
Among the setups, Spencer paid
homage to the art of Yves Kein, Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly,
and in the final group of setups
with the Blue, Teal and Black painted participants, made a rather effective
reference to the BP oil spill
in the Gulf of Mexico, as four rows of black painted participants interwove
their way into a blue and teal
sea.
Our Big Chill page will follow soon.
Reports from the installation
come from
Metro
| TNT
Magazine | Worcester
News
La
Repubblica, Italy | Clash
Music | ABC
News
BBC
video clip | London
Evening Standard
From the blogs:
Face
Culture | Jumping
Anaconda
Spencer's page on The
Big Chill website.
Over one remarkable weekend
in May, Tunick made a series of photographs and a new film
of his multiple-site installation
in Salford and Manchester. Volunteers were taken,
via a caravan of heated buses,
to eight locations over the weekend of 1 - 2 May
and asked to pose naked while
Tunick created the installation.
The resulting photographic
and film work will the be shown at The Lowry
from 12 June - 26 September
as part of the exhibition, Everyday People.
The Lowry have released an official,
limited edition, Everyday People DVD
of the film shown at the exhibition.
This DVD includes footage from both days.
Click
here to purchase the official Everyday People DVD from The Lowry's
online shop.
Our dedicated Everyday People page is here
The
Installation Page on the Lowry website is here
An
interview with Spencer on the Culture 24 website
The
Times | The
BBC features a short video clip | The
Mirror | The
Daily Mail | Salford
Advertiser
The
Daily Telegraph | The
Sun | CBC
| Belfast
Telegraph | Manchester
Evening News
Earlier news items
An
article on Manchester's City Life website | The
BBC website
The
EasyArt website offers an introduction to Lowry's work which Spencer hopes
to recreate
From the Blogs:
Moregeous
| Catherine
| John
| Purple_t100
A
piece by Alison Bell on Manchester Gossip
Our own Mardi Gras Page with contributions from four participants
Here are a few early items from
the Australian media,
although more articles can
be found using your favourite search engine
(links marked * include a video
clip):
The
Herald Sun | ABC
News* | Sydney
Morning Herald | Pedestrian
TV
MSNBC
| A
participant testimonial in The Sydney Morning Herald
More from The Sydney Morning
Herald*: Video
1 Video
2 Photo
Gallery
Perth
Now (with a pixellated image) | Earth
Times
The
original registration page can be found here
Christian and Alistair have provided us with their experiences here
The
Greenpeace Website features a video and images of the day | An
artticle on the Greenpeace website
A
large gallery of pictures on Le Bien Public | A
promotional video teaser | ITN
News Item on YouTube
Our Montauk Point page is here
News
Item from the East Hampton Star | Interview
and slideshow on Flavorwire
A collection of some images from the project, can be found here.
If you participated in this
installation, and would like to contribute some words to accompany the
pictures,
please
email us here.
News
item from The LA Times | VivirLatino
Tabasco
Hoy | El
Universal article | A
video clip from El Universal
This installation almost went
unnoticed as participation was limited to Shoreditch House
members only and was kept secret
until the last minute. Spencer was allowed to bring
five guests into the club for
the installation, and one of these participants wrote down
her impression of the installation.
Read
GlobalGirl's experience here
A
report from The Independent here
The Sunday morning installation
took place in the new development at Bolands Mills, Grand Canal Dock,
with people posing on the balconies
of the new develpment buildings. A further installation took
place with women only on the
roof of one of the buildings.
Despite the harsh weather conditions, everyone seems to agree that the craic was mighty in Dublin.
Our
Dublin page is here.
Sadly, Spencer's official Ireland
Website with images and videos is now closed.
Emer was at both installations, and she has posted a detailed blog here
Kevin
Myers' op-ed in the Irish Independent | Colin
Coyle of The Times comments
Alison
O'Riordan of the Belfast Telegraph writes of her experience
The
official Dublin Docklands Tunick Page
Our
Blarney Castle page is here
Sadly, Spencer's official Ireland
Website with images and videos is now closed.
The
official registration page | Cork
Midsummer Festival Home Page
A
columnist's views in the Irish Independent | The
news item in the Irish Independent
An
op-ed by Sinead Ryan in The Herald.ie | A
news clip on the BBC | Metro
UK
Our
own Happel Stadium page
(we
still could use another contribution or two if you were there)
The
Official Registration Page
International news articles
from:
AFP
| Reuters
| News
Ltd Australia (with picture gallery)
Austrian news websites:
ORF.AT
(includes pictures and a video) | DiePresse.com
Chris
was there and this is his account
The
original notification and a first glimpse of one of the polaroit prints
can be seen here
Other links:
The
ABC News page dedicated to this event is here | Good
Morning America on ABC
The
Tunick Page on the Sagamore Hotel's website (formerly the registration
page)
provides information about
the Sagamore Hotel installation and a number of documentary photos by Melissa
Marino.
Of the numerous press links
that we had posted, only Local-10
still have a live link.
On August 18, 2007, Spencer
and around 600 people ventured with Greenpeace to the
Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland.
The installation was part of a Greenpeace campaign
to raise awareness of global
warming.
Kris, Mike and Patsie were there
and have contributed experiences and pictures from the day.
Visit
our Aletsch Glacier page here
This installation was followed
the following day by a smaller installation with around 20 people on nearby
Moosfluh.
Read
Kris' account of the small installation here
Other links:
The
Greenpeace Website | A
33 second video clip from Sky News
On April 15, Spencer Tunick
held the first installation for Dream Amsterdam, an arts event
envisioned and organised by
Jamain Brigitha, an artist and curator herself. This installation took
place
in a tulip field in Schermerhorn
with around 100 participants.
Visit
our Schermerhorn page here.
The main Dream Amsterdam installation
took place on June 3rd and comprised about 1400 participants
in various setups in and around
the Q-Park, and a small installation on the Leliegracht.
Visit
our Amsterdam page here.
Visit
the official Dream Amsterdam website here
Reuters
coverage of the Schermerhorn installation can be found here.
The largest Spencer Tunick installation
to date took place on May 6th, 2007
with 18,000 participants filling
the Zocalo Square. We have pictures from the installation kindly provided
by a press photographer who
was there, but we are waiting for some experiences to post with them.
If you were in Zocalo Square
on May 6, 2007 and can provide us with a few paragraphs, please
do so here.
Spencer was invited to Dusseldorf
to create several installations for the ArtCity events of Dusseldorf's
Quadriennalle.
Silke
and Michaela took part in the installations on August 6.
Other links
The
Museum Kunst Palast Spencer Tunick page | RP
Online (in German)
Spencer was in San Sebastian
on April 22nd 2006.
COFF
(in San Sebastian) | El
Comercio Digital | 20
Minutos
Spencer was in Caracas (Venezuela)
on March 19th 2006.
Ruth
was one of the participants and her experience can be found here
Other links:
Franca's
Blog with pictures | The
BBC report | Actualidad
Terra | El
Nacional
Flickr.com
| Desnudos
con Tunick | Pictures
of the event | Miniplug
TV
Spencer conducted a small scale
installation with 67 males in Bruges on February 5th 2006.
Michiel
and Ulrich were two of the 67 men, and their comments are here
Spencer Tunick was in Lyon in
September 2005:
The
Spencer Tunick Blogspot (by Pamela) | BBC
(UK) | Pictures
from the event
Spencer Tunick was in Newcastle
in July 2005
Our
Newcastle-Gateshead Baltic page is here
Here are an abundance of links
to various media sites.
News
BBC | The
Guardian | ICNewcastle
| Republica
(Italy) | A
blogger's experience
Report
from Yve Ngoo a BBC journalist | The
Observer | The
Guardian - Art & Architecture
The
Times | The
Times Online | News.telegraph.co.uk
| IOL
[South Africa]
The
Guardian | Edinburgh
news.com [Scotsman] | CBC
Arts Online [Canada]
The
Scotsman | Mail
& Guardian Online [internet based news publication in Africa]
The
New Zealand Herald | The
Journal | Hold
the Front Page
Spencer Tunick was in Bruges,
Belgium, May 2005:
A
personal experience in Bruges
Two small installations that
took place while Spencer was in London for a Hales Gallery
exhibition opening in October
2004. Small means two sets of 4 participants and
two individual shots over two
days.
Diane
and Craig were in Shoreditch with Spencer Tunick
An installation with 300 participants
organised for the "Imaginarius" Arts Festival in Santa Maria da Feira,
September 13, 2003.
For many Londoners, the Selfridges
installation on April 27, 2003 was their first.
With the publicity surrounding
the Saatchi Gallery opening a few weeks earlier,
there was an incredible turnout
for Selfridges, with around 500 people queuing
around the building by the
time the doors opened. Only 400 people were
allowed to participate, and
the remaining 100 were turned away.
Some
personal experiences from the Selfridges installation
The opening of the Saatchi Gallery
in April 2003 was a celebrity studded event featuring
a host of London's A-list glitterati
who did not pose nude, and 160 volunteers who did.
This installation began as
any other Spencer Tunick installation would,
but took a surreal twist as
volunteers - still nude - mingled with the celebrities
for the rest of the evening.
An
account in the Guardian by Jane Roberts
An
item from The Observer | A
BBC item about the Saatchi Gallery opening, April 2003
On June 1, 2002, Spencer held
an installation in Cortlandt Alley between White and Walker Streets
in Lower Manhattan, for the
20th anniversary of Art In General - a non-profit organisation that assists
artists to produce and present
new work, that resides on Walker Street.
Nick from Boston made the trip
to New York and took part.
Here
is Nick's story
There is no reference to the
installation on the Art In General website, but there is a lot to see.
The
Art In General website is here.
In 2001, Spencer came to Greenwich
for his first mass installation in London, and with 400 participants,
he captured The Cutty Sark,
The Admiral Hardy and the Greenwich Foot Tunnel entrance
in ways that would not normally
be seen by the average tourist.
Our
Cutty Sark page with Matthew's account of the morning.
Spencer's Nude Adrift project,
eventually to be documented in HBO's Naked World
began in Montreal, where a
2500 strong crowd turned up to pose for him in a collaboration with
the Musée d'Art Contemporain
de Montréal.
Peter was there, and this is his account of the morning
A
BBC report from Montreal | A
report from CBC
Spencer Tunick's Official Website
Spencer's
Blog on the Suffern Music and Arts Festival homepage
A report on Spencer's trip to Kyoto
BBC "Thoughts of the Day" referring to the Saatchi and Selfridges installations
Alan
(a.k.a. ATOR) is a frequent participant and he shares his experiences here
Spencer
Tunick on Artnet
This website includes a vast
collection of Spencer's official images (over 70),
a comprehensive biography,
chronology, interviews and more "presented courtesy of the artist"
A partially complete documentation of NAKED STATES can be found on The Blue Dot.
A series of 41 photographs circa 1993 called Americazone can also be found on The Blue Dot.
NAKED WORLD documented by Arlene Donnely
For some time, Nerve was the
place to read about the latest stage of "Nude Adrift".
Each month or so Spencer and
Kristen would download their last venue's report,
with documentary photographs
(not Spencer's own), and sometimes the report
would be from a friend on the
spot, maybe the person who had master minded the visit,
locations and model-hunting.
Nerve has now put this page into a premium area.
Click
here to visit Nerve
A seemingly unofficial collection on a Polish website Poema Art
A partial collection of images
mostly from Naked States on the Artsversus
website.