Artist Spencer Tunick plans to fill one of Melbourne’s most famous streets with naked people, no matter the weather.
The New York-based artist announced on Monday he will return to Australia later this year, having last visited in 2010 to photograph thousands of naked people on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. This time he plans to use Melbourne’s Chapel Street as his canvas over two days in July as part of the Provocaré arts festival.
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Tunick said he was looking forward to working with Melburnians again, noting a mass nude photo shoot he did on the city’s Princes Bridge on a wet day in 2001.
“Almost 5,000 people coming [out] in the rain to want to be part of an artwork is phenomenal,” he said in a video released on Monday. “People from Melbourne are a little braver because of their willingness to pose no matter the weather. I get a sense of resilience and risk-taking.”
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Tunick called on models over the age of 18 and of “any shape, any size, any nationality, any ethnicity” to participate.
“Of course, I’d like the 5,000 people who already participated many years ago to register, but I think we also need new blood and new experiences,” he said.
Like his 2001 shoot, the July event will go ahead, rain, hail or shine.
“If you’re worried about the cold, don’t be, because participants will not be naked for long periods of time,” Chapel Street marketing spokeswoman Chrissie Maus said.
The photographs will be included in a collection titled Return of the Nude, which Tunick hopes will help to remove the idea of the body depicted as a “glorified celebrity”.
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The New York-based artist announced on Monday he will return to Australia later this year, having last visited in 2010 to photograph thousands of naked people on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. This time he plans to use Melbourne’s Chapel Street as his canvas over two days in July as part of the Provocaré arts festival.
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Tunick said he was looking forward to working with Melburnians again, noting a mass nude photo shoot he did on the city’s Princes Bridge on a wet day in 2001.
“Almost 5,000 people coming [out] in the rain to want to be part of an artwork is phenomenal,” he said in a video released on Monday. “People from Melbourne are a little braver because of their willingness to pose no matter the weather. I get a sense of resilience and risk-taking.”
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Tunick called on models over the age of 18 and of “any shape, any size, any nationality, any ethnicity” to participate.
“Of course, I’d like the 5,000 people who already participated many years ago to register, but I think we also need new blood and new experiences,” he said.
Like his 2001 shoot, the July event will go ahead, rain, hail or shine.
“If you’re worried about the cold, don’t be, because participants will not be naked for long periods of time,” Chapel Street marketing spokeswoman Chrissie Maus said.
The photographs will be included in a collection titled Return of the Nude, which Tunick hopes will help to remove the idea of the body depicted as a “glorified celebrity”.
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… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.
