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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 is said to have taken 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.
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 registration page | Dublin
Docklands Tunick Page
Our Blarney Castle page is here
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
During this installation I discovered
that Spencer's videographer, Andrew Einhorn, has torn his achilles tendon
and as a result was unable to be in Ireland. So I'd like to wish Andrew
a speedy recovery, because - to be honest - it's just not the same without
him.
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
| International
Herald Tribune | Reuters
| PR-Inside.com
| News
Ltd Australia (with picture gallery)
SBS
World News Australia (with video clip) | Associated
Press
Austrian news websites:
ORF.AT
(includes pictures and a video) | Vienna
Online | DiePresse.com
| Kurier
(with pictures)
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
Here are an abundance of links
to keep you busy until our own Newcastle-Gateshead page is ready.
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 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 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.
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. Click here to visit Nerve
NAKED WORLD documented by Arlene Donnely
Dina Burg Arts images from Nude Adrift
A seemingly unofficial collection on a Polish website Poema Art
A partial collection of images mostly from Naked States on the Artsversus website.