August 2007
Around 600 naked volunteers formed a “living sculpture” on Switzerland’s largest glacier earlier this month to raise awareness of climate change and glacial melting.
Standing on the Aletsch Glacier with only a warm sense of self-satisfaction to keep them warm, the assembled masses endured temperatures of around 10C while being photographed in the all-together by acclaimed New York artist Spencer Tunick.
Standing on a stepladder and bellowing through a megaphone, Tunick directed five separate camera crews and the eager participants who had travelled from all over Europe.
“The melting of the glaciers is an indisputable sign of global climate change,” said environmental group Greenpeace, who co-organised the event.
A spokesperson for the campaign said the aim of the project was to “establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body”.
The spokesperson added that this was managed in an eco-friendly way to minimise any impact on the environment, before warning that Swiss glaciers could disappear by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace.
Tunick’s previous projects have featured mass nudity in London, Newcastle and Amsterdam, but these events were dwarfed in May 2007 when the artist photographed 18,000 people in the buff in the centre of Mexico City.
Around 600 naked volunteers formed a “living sculpture” on Switzerland’s largest glacier earlier this month to raise awareness of climate change and glacial melting.
Standing on the Aletsch Glacier with only a warm sense of self-satisfaction to keep them warm, the assembled masses endured temperatures of around 10C while being photographed in the all-together by acclaimed New York artist Spencer Tunick.
Standing on a stepladder and bellowing through a megaphone, Tunick directed five separate camera crews and the eager participants who had travelled from all over Europe.
“The melting of the glaciers is an indisputable sign of global climate change,” said environmental group Greenpeace, who co-organised the event.
A spokesperson for the campaign said the aim of the project was to “establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body”.
The spokesperson added that this was managed in an eco-friendly way to minimise any impact on the environment, before warning that Swiss glaciers could disappear by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace.
Tunick’s previous projects have featured mass nudity in London, Newcastle and Amsterdam, but these events were dwarfed in May 2007 when the artist photographed 18,000 people in the buff in the centre of Mexico City.
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