Check it out- Participate in Miami Beach for a New Spencer Tunick Installation

For people who want to participate in a historic installation by an internationally renowned artist and happen to not be bashful
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Register and more info at: http://tunick.sagamorehotel.com/index.php


Installation date: Monday, October 8, 2007 at the
Sagamore Art Hotel

The Sagamore will choose people to be part of this unique installation based on photographs submitted with your registration. In order to be chosen you must send in photographs of yourself. Send existing photographs of you experiencing: Miami night life, beach life, and the art scene, or you can take new ones. (the photographs you send do not have to be nude)

In exchange for taking part, you will receive a limited edition print of the installation. Participants must be 18 or older. You will only be nude for a short period of time.

To register please fully complete the sign up form. Chosen participants will be contacted nearer to the date of the installation with further instructions and arrival time.

The Sagamore and guest curator Kimberly Marrero bring you this once-in-a lifetime opportunity to be part of a very special art installation.

The resulting photographs and videos made on October 8th will then be exclusively exhibited in December during Art Basel Miami 2007 at the Annual Sagamore Brunch hosted by Cricket and Martin Taplin, Martin Z. Margulies and Constance Collins, The Bass Museum of Art, Patricia and Philip Frost Museum at FIU, Lowe Art Museum, Miami Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art and The Wolfsonian.

Contemporary artist Spencer Tunick is widely celebrated for his elaborately posed installations of multiple nude figures within interestingly select public settings. His temporary site-specific installations have taken place across the globe in cities including Lyon, Melbourne, Mexico City, New York and Barcelona to name a few. Tunick gathers legions of volunteers to take part in his elaborate installations which in the past have drawn numbers well into the thousands.

Creating his seminal temporary site-specific landscapes involve the recruitment of many nude figures arranged in specific public sites and follow on the tradition of the popular art of the early 70's known as land art. Embedded directly in the landscape the artist assigns the nude form as a functional art material devised to intervene within its natural surrounds as a way to transform it. The final result, also drawing from the tradition of recording the ephemeral, the artist creates a series of uniquely exquisite video and photographic documentation.

The poetic whole culminating from this sea of individual figures which are arranged in a sculptural way, further challenges traditionally held stigmas associated with nudity, privacy and social and political issues surrounding art in the public sphere.

This collaboration with Spencer Tunick is part of the Sagamore's on-going programming, which routinely invites recognized artists to create original works in a variety of exhibition areas located throughout the hotel's interior spaces, gardens and on its oceanfront beach. Previous collaborations included photographer Massimo Vitali, multi-media artist Roxy Paine and the veteran conceptual artist Yoko Ono. In 2002, Massimo Vitali was selected to kick off the very first Art Basel Miami, with his on-site live photo shoot that featured glamorous art-world guests attending the first Art Basel Brunch which is now held annually. Last year, Yoko Ono chose the Sagamore's gardens for her world-renowned interactive piece "Onochord."