VIENNA, AUSTRIA - May 11, 2008 - This morning, photographer Spencer Tunick completed yet another installation, this time in a football stadium in Vienna. 1,840 nude volunteers participated, short of his goal of 2,008 for this montage which celebrates the European cup taking place next month in the same stadium. His photos will be exhibited in the local Kunsthalle museum.

Photos of Vienna shoot (Brisbane Times)
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New York native Spencer Tunick continues his long term project of photographing massive numbers of nudes in one take, this time taking to the streets of Cork (June 17) and Dublin (June 21), two major cities in Ireland.
Tunick has already started his volunteer model recruitment drive via a website dedicated to the event ((www.spencertunickireland.ie). Public nudity is illegal in Ireland, but the artist usually has no problems getting cities to host and fund his installations, as they’re prestigious events which receive enormous press coverage around the globe.
Tunick will also shoot in Vienna, Austria, on May 11, this time with a football theme in honor of the European championship which will take place in that city in June. Tunick hopes to beat his old record of 18,000 thousand nude participants, as the shoot location will be the Ernest Happel stadium, which has a 50,000 capacity.

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MEXICO CITY - A nudist group based in Mexico City claims to have organized a nude visit to the city’s University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUCA), in conjunction with a Spencer Tunick exhibit taking place there. Saturday, November 27, from 7:30 pm through 9 pm, anyone visiting the display of photos Tunick took earlier this year in the city’s renown Zocalo square, will be required to remove all items of clothing except for footwear. One might suspect that this would be used as a publicity stunt, but organizers insist that no media will be present, even though visitors will be allowed to take photos, as long as anyone included in a shot gives his or her consent.

The famous American photographer of nude multitudes has said that he hopes to do further artistic installations in both Mexico and Venezuela, two Latin-American countries that were particularly receptive to his ongoing project. Mexico City was the scene of his record photo shoot, involving 18,000 naked volunteers, a number which he doubts he can surpass in the future. On another note, according to statistics compiled after the Mexico event, 65 percent of participants were male, 40 percent were between the ages of 26 and 36, and the vast majority were from the capital region itself.

Tunick has long wanted to do an installation on the massive pyramids of the Teotihuacán ruins near Mexico City, something local authorities have so far resisted. Tunick is still trying hard to convince the country’s National Institute of History and Archeology (INAH) to grant him permission. He believes this could become a reality within three years. A retrospective of Tunick’s body of work, in both photos and short films is currently exhibited in Mexico City’s “Museo de Ciudad” (City Museum), where it will remain until February 28, 2008. Murals of photos as well as videos from his Mexico City photo shoot can also be seen in a gallery of a city university.

Recently, Tunick was also in Caracas for the inauguration of another exhibit of his work in the Museum of Contemporary Art in that city. He told local reporters that he intended to return to Venezuela in the first three months of 2008 for another shoot, this time using the 5 mile (8.6 km) long suspension bridge that spans Lake Maracaibo in the northeast of the country as the backdrop.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2007 - MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA - Today at the Sagamore hotel, a small South Beach hotel with a penchant for the flamboyant, over five hundred men and women posed nude for the camera of Spencer Tunick. The main shot required that the volunteer models stand still side by side on the balconies of the hotel. This was followed by a take involving about a hundred female participants, who completely filled the hotel’s swimming pool with pink inflatable rafts and lay on them. Then came the turn of around a hundred male models, this time using green rafts. The event was followed by the usual barbecue hosted by Tunick for all volunteers.