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.
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Getting naked for art
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.
