New Mardi Gras, with the assistance of the City of Sydney, is pleased to announce that contemporary artist Spencer Tunick will be making a series of installations titled ‘The Base’ in Sydney on 1st March 2010 as part of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras.
You can take advantage of this opportunity by signing up to participate. In exchange for taking part, you will receive a limited edition print of the installation. You will only be nude for a short period of time.
The installation will take place in the early morning, rain or shine.
To participate in this art event, and for time and specific instructions, please register below.
You will be contacted closer to the date of the art event.
Only participants will be allowed in the vicinity of the art event. Under 18 year old participants must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Tunick's art challenges the preconceived notions of nudity and the culturally charged, often negative, connotations that are associated with it. In his work, it is the beauty inherent in all human beings that prevails. This is Spencer Tunick's first large-scale installation in Sydney.
Born in Middletown , New York in 1967, Tunick currently lives in the Hudson Valley in New York State. Since 1992, he has done more than 95, short lived, site-specific installations across the United States, Canada, and abroad, and his installations have been commissioned by SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2001); XXV Bienal de Sâo Paulo, Brazil (2002); Lyon Biennial, France (2005); Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, NewcastleGateshead, England (2005); Vienna Kunsthalle, Austria (2008) among others.
Tunick's installations require not only a great deal of organisation and collaboration, but his volunteers must trust him and his process. Volunteers who have agreed to pose arrive at a specific time and shed their clothing. With the help of his support team, Tunick then organizes and directs the participants as a group to the positioning he desires and the moment is captured with photography and video.
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