To embody a new installation, Spencer Tunik is looking for more than 2500 people, so if you ever wanted to participate in an interesting action, half dedicated to art, and half to the national skin cancer week in Australia, then this project exactly for you. You will participate in a large-scale photo shoot with thousands of enthusiasts like you, exposing their bodies for the sake of art.
The essence of this project is to present each of the volunteers as one of the more than 2,500 Australians dying of skin cancer every year. This art installation is supported by Skin Check Champions, a foundation that exists through charitable donations, which oversees the activities of clinics and organizations that conduct skin check research for free throughout Australia.
The slogan of this project, taken from the charity’s website, reads as follows:
“It will be a big and bold celebration of the beauty of the skin, as something in common that each of us has”.
Tunic is known for the use of naked bodies in his works to create a kind of 2peisages of people, in which people seem to blur in a single stream of photography, turning into a single whole, they bend, cling to each other. these photo shoots often have a philanthropic or political context.
Tunik conducted performances and organized his temporary installations in more than 100 cities and places around the world, ranging from photo shoots at the Dead Sea, the Opera House in Sydney and the Swiss glacier to installations at Zocalo Square in Mexico, in which tens to thousands of volunteers took part.
The photographer’s website says that the event, the recruitment of volunteers for which, as already mentioned, is already open, will take place in Sydney. Tunik had already held a “naked photoshoot” there in 2010. Information about the exact time and place of the project will be sent only to those who register as a volunteer.
Participation is absolutely free; you only need to register online on the project website.
Main Sources: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/10/26/spencer-tunick-mass-nude-photo-sydney-australia/10596378002/
