One Thousand Bodies Art Installation, Cork, Ireland, Saturday 16th June 2018
One Thousand Bodies is a not-for-profit community arts initiative planned to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Spencer Tunick's visit to Ireland. The American photographer created photo installations in Cork and Dublin, involving several thousand people posing nude.
For many, participation in the event was a life-changing experience. The most repeated comments were that it helped to promote body acceptance and helped people to move on from the shame that many of us were taught to associate with being unclothed.
Spencer's visit also inspired a growth in Irish naturism, the establishment of the World Naked Bike Ride in Ireland, and the creation of a body painting movement that is flourishing, having attracted over 1,200 people to date.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Spencer's visit, a collective of artists in Cork will hold a mass nude photo shoot on the morning of Saturday 16th June.
Called One Thousand Bodies, the shoot will involve arranging the participants to stand and lie in carefully planned patterns. Using perspective, we hope to create three iconic images.
The first will represent the carnage suffered by cyclists on public roads, an unsafe and unequal space that is dominated by car culture.
The second will celebrate the power, beauty and individuality of our bodies, regardless of the cultural norms created and driven by commerce.
The third will be an appeal for sanity in protecting the planet from environmental catastrophe.
We ask that you register for this event in the knowledge that you have to bear all your own costs, and that the only payment you receive will be our thanks, the enjoyment of the event for itself, and the knowledge that you are supporting bodily freedom.
You will also receive links to high resolution digital files of each of the three images created.
To register, send an email to [email protected] You will receive a reply with questions about you. When you send your answers you are registered.
Closer to the date of the installation we will contact you with instructions about how to prepare, what to bring, etc. We will reveal the exact location closer to the day.
Photograph above taken by Spencer Tunick in the famed El Zócalo Plaza in Mexico on May 6th 2007, which involved almost 18,000 volunteers posing nude.