Spencer strikes again!
What's this? A massacre in a museum? The morning after the night before? The latest atrocity to come out of Abu Ghraib Prison? No, it's Yankee non-artist Spencer Tunick doing his thing with a pile of yuppies. He did it last Sunday in the Jerry museum kunst palast in Dusseldorf (something to do with Dusseldorf Quadriennale06). It's supposed to be an art installation of "three-dimensional body sculpture". Looks like a pile of naked yuppies to me. As art, forget it; but as a psychology experiment to see how far your average yuppie will go in the name of Art, it's interesting. And where did he find all those white yuppies? If I tried this nonsense in Ilford, firstly the pile would be very dark and secondly I'd be arrested. So would the pile. Come to think of it, those US soldiers who stood trial for abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib could have used Spencer Tunick as their defence. "We weren't torturing 'em, yer honour. We was just getting 'em to do American installation art."
posted by Unknown @ 9.8.06
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Yuppies? Good God that's a dated term in itself. "an ambitious young adult, usually college-educated, living in
or near a large city, with a professional career and an
affluent lifestyle" A better term might be the arty crowd - but no, you don't think it's art so that can't be it. I will agree few poor or homeless folk take part, though Spencer has used them as individual models in the past. You do need to be organized to get to a Tunick installation and to take part. But no,Spencer does not select on "Yuppism"(gah-I hate using that) though in this instance he did select 50 folk to represent what his vision of what he wanted, and yes they were more the standard "ideal"- though where does the baby fit in? If you bothered to look at any other of the news photos you would have seen a wider veriety of ages and body types. Not much color variation in this lot- Caracas Venezuala and San Sebastian Spain this year had more shades of skin- but then I would say that people of darker pigmentation seldom take part in large numbers in Spencer's work, here in the US or in Europe,and I would say it's a cultural bias on their part.Only in South America does that seem to be less of a problem. As to it being art-well each to his own, but as my butt has been hangin' in a few meuseums around the world now thanks to Spencer, I'll go with my definition ;-0
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