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The Spencer Tunick
Experience Party Installation is a group commission,
based on the principle
that participants pre-purchase a signed and numbered work of
art
created at the party
by Spencer Tunick, the edition number based on the number of
participants.
This year's edition
will be around 60, each 11x14" print individually signed and
numbered by the artist.
Spencer has added his
support to the making of a documentary by GalleryBeat's Paul
Hasegewa Overacker
about Dr. Daryl Isaacs
and the Mercer Street Medical Case. Spencer's artwork is
sponsored by the film
which attempts, in the
telling of Dr. Isaacs' story, to raise awareness for the
disappearing family physician.
The Kickstarter
campaign successfully reached its goal and is now closed,
but the Kickstarter page
offers a wealth of
information. Kickstarter backers were invited to take part
in the installation
which took place on
July 1.
An account of the installation at Mercer Street Medical
The film's home page
is here.
The Kickstarter page
can be found here.
The main installation
for this collaboration between Spencer and the Bayerische
Staatsoper
took place on Saturday
morning, June 23. Participants were painted red and gold
and provided colour
and texture for several works based on Wagner's Rings of the
Nibelung.
An estimated 1700 took
part in a very striking number of setups which have been
extensively
covered by the press.
Around 100 women took part in a number of setups in front of
the Opera House
and inside the
building, also making use of a specially constructed cone or
"ring".
On the following
morning, Spencer took 65 blue rhinemaidens to a small island
on the Isar
for a small
installation also using the conical structure from the day
before.
June 23rd: Our own
page for the main installation is slowly growing here
but it is waiting for
your
contributions - stories and pictures!
In the meantime, it
has an embedded link to the official 4 minute clip released
by the Bayerische Staatsoper,
and an account of the
morning by one of the gold participants called Flash
June 24th: Our own page for the second day's Rheinmaiden installation at Flaucher
On the web in English
MSNBC | The Daily Mail | The Mirror | NY Daily News | Sky News Australia (with video clip)
Artlyst | TheLocal.de | Art Media Agency | The LA Times | RT.com | Big
Pond
German
Süddeutsche (news item) | Bild | Augsburger Allgemeine | Stern | Focus.de (preview)
Focus.de (video) | Süddeutsche (interview) | Kleine Zeitung 1 | Kleine Zeitung 2 | FT Deutschland
Tiroler Tageszeitung | Stadtmagazin München 24 | Welt Online | TZ Online | N-TV
Spiegel Online | Berliner Morgenpost | Zeit Online
Hebrew
Nana10 | Channel 2 | YNet
Other Languages
France TV (video) | Latercera | El Diario 24 | Noticieros Televisa | Informe 21
Jean Marc Morandini (video) | HLN.BE | Taringa (some hi-res pics)
Blogs
The World of ADT | Lost In Berlin (blog on Salon) | Natascha's blog
The original registration and info pages are here and here respectively.
Join the STE's
facebook group here and join the Spencer Tunick Forum here.
Spencer joined us on
Friday evening, October 14, 2011, for our second annual
Spencer Tunick
Experience Party Installation, this time at the health club
of lovely Prested
Hall
near Colchester,
kindly provided for the occasion by owner, Mike Carter.
The Spencer Tunick
Experience Party Installation is a group commission,
based on the principle
that participants pre-purchase a signed and numbered work of
art
created at the party
by Spencer Tunick, the edition number based on the number of
participants.
This year's edition
will be around 25, each 11x14" print individually
signed and numbered by the artist.
This year, Spencer
chose three setups, the first in one of Prested Hall's two Real Tennis courts,
the second took place
in the gym, and the third in the fitness club's swimming
pool.
Martin took part in
the installation and wrote about it on his blog:
Everyday Life Model
The Spencer Tunick
Experience Party Installation in 2012 will take place
on a farm in
Cambridgeshire, also around October.
If you are interested
in taking part in the party installation in 2012, EMAIL US HERE.
Press coverage in
English:
The Independent | The Telegraph | Huffington Post | Sydney Morning Herald
The Mail Online | Mail Online again | Green Prophet | The Jerusalem Post 1 | The Jerusalem Post 2
Ha'aretz 1 | Ha'aretz 2 | Metro | AFP | Global Post | CBS News | San Antonio Express
ArtLyst | Ynet News | AOL Travel |3News NZ | TIME | ArtInfo | No Camels
Press coverage in
Hebrew:
Nana10 1 | Nana10 2 | Nana10 3| Israel Channel 2 1 | Israel Channel 2 2 | YNet 1 | YNet 2 | Ynet 3
Israel Hayom | Galatz| Ma'ariv NRG | Walla 1 | Walla 2 | MyNet | Globes 1 | The Marker
Urban Mouse | Ha'aretz | News 1 | Globes 2 | A personal account on Ynet
Video clips
Slideshow with Galatz Radio Broadcast |
Channel 2 Clip | From the air | Repubblica Radio-TV
NTN24 | A Russian TV reoprt | EFE | AFP | ABC | Milenio | TeleSUR | RT
A montage of images by Casey Kelbaugh
The
original Registration page
The original Kickstarter campaign can be
found here
This summer and fall
Gaasbeek Castle in Belgium will be occupied by numerous
sleeping beauties.
The exhibition
Sleeping Beauties (9 September – 13 November 2011) presents
a selection of
contemporary artworks
that all in a different way touch upon the broad theme of
sleep and dream.
Spencer chose to
explore a variety of different themes for his contribution
to the Sleeping Beauties project.
Sword wielding knights
(without the shining armour); The King, the young prince,
the advisers and the royal guard;
Maidens in fairytale
head-dresses and enchanted trees.
Women fall back into
the arms of their men in front of the castle, before all
slowly fall into a deep slumber
lasting a hundred
years. The long slumber ends with a massive pillow fight,
the magnitude of which has never
been seen before. We
all love a good fairy tale, and Gaasbeek Castle provided the
perfect setting.
Press coverage has
been abundant for this installation.
Kleine Zeitung | De Redactie | Editie Pajot | Gazet van Antwerpen | Cobra.be | Nieuwsblad.be | HLN.be
Metro.co.uk | The Daily Mail |International Business Times | Persinfo | KnackWeekend.be | DeMorgen.be
The installation has
been featured on a website that caters to the crane
industry: Vertikal.net
The Gaasbeek Castle homepage can be found
here
More information about the Sleeping Beauties
project
Spencer made another
trip to the UK in 2010, for an installation for his party
series.
This took place in
Cambridge on October 14 ,and was organised by the editor of
this website,
yours truly, hence its
long and convoluted name. This was a very small installation
which took place
at the home of one of
the participants, and involved setups in three rooms in the
house.
Participants
pre-purchased a signed and numbered 11 x 14" print of an
edition of 40.
During this trip,
Spencer also spent some time shooting a number of
individuals,
in several London
locations between Great Portland Street and Notting Hill.
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.
Our own Aurillac Festival page is here
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
Spencer Tunick page on the Festival website 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.
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 EVERYDAY
PEOPLE DVD
During and after the
exhibition, The Lowry were offering for sale the official
Everyday People DVD of the film shown at the exhibition. This DVD was
produced in a limited edition of 1000 for The Lowry by this
site's editor, Gil Limor.
The DVD is no longer available at The
Lowry, but original sealed copies from the
limited edition
can still be purchased through this site for £12
+ £1.80 P&P.
This
DVD includes footage from both days, and is around 13
minutes long.
Email
Gil
to purchase the Everyday People DVD.
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, and a couple of lovely pieces
from two participants.
Our Zocalo Square page can be found here
A further
installation took place at the Frida Kahlo museum with
around 150 women
made up with the the
artist's signature hairstyle. I believe that among the
prerequisites to participate
in this installation,
was the requirement to have a rather prominent monobrow.
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:
A blog entry by The Spencer Tunick Forum's
own Roger Coss
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
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
A seemingly unofficial collection on a Polish website Poema Art
A partial collection
of images mostly from Naked States on the Artsversus website.