BWW Interview: Spencer Tunick & John Lotton Bare Body & Soul in New Provocaré Festival Program

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT
OUTLET: BROADWAY WORLD

The sophomore Provocaré Festival is returning to spice up the Melbourne winter with a program that will really knock you out of hibernation. Of course the talk of the town has been the thrilling return of American photographic artist Spencer Tunick, whose large-scale outdoor mass-attended nude artworks are renowned the world over. Broadway World got the chance to chat with Spencer and Provocaré Festival director John Lotton about what's to come.

"After the Apology" featured on the ABC's Matter of Fact

CLIENT: DEMAND.FILM
OUTLET: ABC TV: MATTER OF FACT WITH STAN GRANT

After the Apology, Director, Larissa Behrendt with Hazel Collins on the ABC's Matter of Fact with Stan Grant.

"vital viewing for Australians hitherto untouched by the issue. Behrendt, Perske and the Grandmothers Against Removal have performed extraordinary emotional labour to produce this alarming report of our country’s dark past, and present." - InDaily

Gossip Queen: Bare bottoms and busts cause social media giant to play fun police

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT
OUTLET: SUNDAY HERALD SUN

NUDE landscape photographic artist Spencer Tunick has had his plans for a mass birthday suit installation in Melbourne’s famed Chapel Street shut down by a social media giant.

New York-based Tunick, who specialises in living art installations featuring hundreds of everyday people stark naked in public settings, will create dramatic mass nude images, called Return Of The Nude, in trendy South Yarra in July as part of the PROVOCARE Festival of the Arts.

Post-baby body image battle

CLIENT: EMBRACE YOU
OUTLET: TODAY

In Today's Agenda body image campaigner Taryn Brumfitt reveals how she learnt to love her appearance after having a baby and what she's doing to help other mums feel better about their bodies.

Getting naked for art

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT
OUTLET: SUNRISE

Spencer Tunick returns to Australia for another nude shoot.

Spencer Tunick returns to Melbourne for mass nude photographs in 2018

CLIENT: CHAPEL STREET PRECINCT
OUTLET: THE AGE

Over a career spanning more than 25 years, Tunick has staged 125 mass nude installations in 25 countries, photographing tens of thousands of volunteers in their birthday suits. He has been arrested for it five times.

Critics say he's a one-trick pony chasing publicity; fans say his work transcends difference and foregrounds the humanity in our industrialised lives.

Either way his popularity is undeniable, with those who model for him saying it's liberating and unforgettable. None of them gets paid but everyone receives a print of the photograph in which they appear.

Former bodybuilder shows how to love your motherly body

CLIENT: EMBRACE YOU
OUTLET: THE DAILY EDITION

When it comes to body positivity, Taryn Brumfitt is a pioneer. She took the concept of a before and after photo, and flipped it upside down. She made headlines when she dropped her bodybuilding physique, and learned to love her mother-of-three figure. Find out more here.

What Is “Electronic Muscle Simulation” & Is It Even Safe?

CLIENT: SPEEDFIT
OUTLET: PEDESTRIAN TV

When I was about 14, I remember going to a friend’s house where she showed me this black pad thing you could strap to your stomach and it would give you a six pack. The idea was that it would send electronic pulses through your abs and work them out without you doing a single thing. I think her parents bought it off the telly.

Obviously, sitting down and sending electric currents through your flesh is hardly the way to a six pack, but the memory of giving it a go has never left me. So when the opportunity came up to trial something called Electronic Muscle Simulation (EMS), that’s immediately where my mind went.

Tips on avoiding stress

CLIENT: DR ZAC
OUTLET: TODAY EXTRA

Dr Zac Turner tells Today Extra that stress can be contagious and reveals how we can avoid catching it from our co-workers.

Celebrity fitness trainers rob women of self-esteem: former bodybuilder

CLIENT: EMBRACE YOU
OUTLET: THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

A FORMER bodybuilder whose story of returning to a realistic figure after years of brutal dieting and exercise was seen by 100 million people has attacked ­celebrity fitness trainers for getting rich off unrealistic weight loss programs.

Body image activist Taryn Brumfitt is challenging Australia’s $7 billion weight loss industry by trying to convince women to embrace their bodies, rather than comparing themselves with ­supermodels and fitness gurus such as ­Michelle Bridges and Kayla ­Itsines.