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Spencer Tunick is in Salford.
The buses are booked, the permissions granted, the technical crew are making final preparations and word is getting out about this weekend’s once-in-a-lifetime installation. Although the weather isn’t great, Spencer has reminded us that anyone taking part will only be nude for short periods of time (participants will be transported between locations with their clothes on, on heated buses and only asked to disrobe for the actual photographs). In fact, speaking at this morning’s press launch, Spencer likened the experience to the short shock ‘a cold plunge for art’s sake’. So if you have registered to take part, we hope to see you over the weekend for this unmissable experience. If you haven’t, you’ll be able to see the stunning resulting photographs and film in the exhibition that opens at The Lowry on 12 June.
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Phenomenal response to call to participate
We’ve had an overwhelming response to our call for people to take part in Spencer Tunick’s latest UK installation, with over four times as many people registering than we have places to allocate. It’s an indication of how popular Spencer Tunick’s work is and it means that not everyone who has registered will be able to attend. If you have registered to take part, look out for another email from us with further details. You'll be asked to re-register and we will then allocate places on a first come, first served basis. If you have been successful you will receive an email from us on Monday 26 April will full details of the installation weekend. If you don’t hear back from us after this point, then we’re sorry but it means that you haven’t been allocated a place.
Raw and uncensored – the first essay
Like to find out more about the work of Spencer Tunick? We will be publishing a series of critical and contextual essays about Tunick’s work between now and August. The first of those essays, Raw and Uncensored, argues that stripping off in the name of art is the ultimate act of consumer rebellion.
It is written by Sarah Kent, best known as the visual arts editor of Time Out London. Sarah Kent also regularly contributes to numerous art magazines, has written catalogues for galleries such as the Hayward, ICA, Saatchi Gallery and White Cube and published books such as Shark-Infested Waters (1994), an overview of YBA art written for the Saatchi Gallery. Click here to read Sarah Kent’s essay about the free spirits she sees evident in Tunick’s work, a group of people who have liberated themselves from the expensive gadgets and accoutrements of a consumer-based society.