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0 you ever want to strip off
and run through the street
naked? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to feel tarmac between your toes? Well soon, i very soon you c0uld just get to try it. Performance artist, Spencer Tunick, is coming to Glasgow and he wants you all to get your kit off.
As part of a worldwide project. Tunick is gathering acres of bare flesh to create natural patterns in various urban environments. and then photographing it. He explains: “The body is vulnerable and the body in
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Flesh photograph
Artist seeks bare naked Weegies. Words: Ruth Hedges
mass has a purity to it. The project
brings out the best in a city. The most understanding, caring people come to
pose!
And so no, you naughty voyeurs.
this isn't for the likes of you. Tunick insists that ‘it's a performance for participants only' which is why the location and dates are top secret: ‘I
never reveal dates.‘ All we know is that
he's 'coming soon'. Interested? If the prospect of
getting naked and being involved in a mass art happening tickles your fancy.
you can e-mail Tunick at
ies of evrdonce: Spencer Tunick‘s New Vibnna 2 (Kunsthalle Wren) 1999
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scotland@spencertunick.com to sign up. Only then, and at the last minute. will the details be revealed.
It should be big. and the bigger the better. Recently 2500 peOple amassed in Canada. Could Scotland improve on this? Tunick is excited about the prospect. ‘Absolutely anyone can join in.‘ he says. ‘Any size, any shape, any colour. any religion. Everyday peOple.'
So, if you're an everyday person who wants something a bit different from spending another Saturday down the shops. why not give it a whirl? Let's just hope it doesn't rain. eh?
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4 THE LIST 5—19 Jul 2001
The Edinburgh International Film Festival launches its 2001 Programme on Wednesday 11 July. Unfortunately. because that falls in the mid-point of The List's fortnightly issue, we can't yet give you the low down on this year's film line- up. We do. however, have an exclusive on one the Film Festival's gala screenings. Lucky Break. Lucky Break is directed by Peter Cattaneo. who won Edinburgh's Young Filmmaker Of The Year award back in 1990 and returned to premiere his hit The Full Monty in 1997. The new film is a prison escape comedy written by Ronan Bennett (Face) and starring Co/d Feet's James Nesbitt as well as Olivia Williams. Timothy Spall
Film Festival sneak preview
New movie from Full Monty director. Words: Miles Fielder
and Bill Nighy.
The Film Festival has also announced the international premiere lie outside its country of origin) of Stacy Peralta's Dogtown And Z-Boys. a skate movie narrated by Sean Penn and featuring Henry Rollins alongside the Zephyr Skateboard team. And. as preViously announced. the festival will open with the international premiere of Ame/re. the box office hit from France directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (De/i‘catessen).
The 55th edition of the longest running film festival in world, this year to run 12—26 August. will be Lizzie Francke's last as artistic director.