It's Not Every Day Your Friend Gets Naked Around Manchester!
Recently, our lovely friend Sian [or, as some of you may know her from Twitter - Moregeous], participated in the Spencer Tunick Ordinary People Naked Photo Shoot, to celebrate the Lowry's 10th anniversary.
Like the trooper she is, she set off in the middle of the night, to an undisclosed location, to strip off - in the name of art. We all thought she was bonkers - but now realise that what she did was actually amazing. She's now a piece of history. It's not everyone who can say, they've been photographed - butt naked - outside The Lowry Theatre, the Eastlands Gasometer and under Concorde.
Over to Moregeous...
"Even with stomachs full of butterflies, we girls downed a glass of wine (for nerves) and a delightfully large Cafe Rouge pudding each (for the hell of it), before crossing over to The Lowry on the launch night for Ordinary People. Just a few weeks earlier we’d all been butt naked in the name of art on those very stone flags and just the thought of it made us giggle as we headed in to see the exhibition. We didn’t quite know what to expect and there were contradictory feeling as though we were apprehensive at the thought of spotting ourselves, at the same time we wanted to almost as if that was ‘proof’ we were really there. It didn’t take blinking long as the huge promo shot plastered on the Lowry tower featured our naked backs before we’d even got into the building!
The place was packed full of excited contributors scanning all the finished photos for their naked little bodies, it was brilliant. Even though there were three or four shots taken at each location, only one made it through to the final exhibition, so it was hit and miss whether you’d be on a photo even if you were there. It was great watching people squeal with delight and sometimes horror when they found themselves right at the front! :-)
Spencer Tunick was there and was just lovely to everyone, signing autographs, smiling for pictures and probably answering the same repeated question over and over – So, Spencer, do you recognise me with my clothes on?
We three scoured the images and found ourselves on the Concorde one with ease, on others with difficulty and on some not at all as we were just out of shot. All in all an experience well worth having – if you are considering it somewhere else in the world, please, please do it! It was exhilarating, different, surreal, fun, cold, I made two lovely new friends and there can be no better endorsement than that we would all do it again. But somewhere warmer than Salford on a May Bank Holiday weekend preferably..."
Words by Moregeous - http://moregeous.wordpress.com