Greenpeace and Spencer Tunick have done it again

Hiya

Remember my post on a Greenpeace/Spencer Tunick co-operation on the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland in July 2007? Well, they have teamed up again to try and save the vineyards of France.

The following is based on information gleaned from the Greenpeace website on the subject, some of it in French (my translation):

On Saturday, October 3rd 2009, in a vineyard in Fuissé, in the South of Burgundy, 713 individuals joined together in a militant artistic installation organised by American artist Spencer Tunick to highlight the impacts of climate change being felt all around the world. In France, they are already affecting the wines and the vineyards. If we don't act here and now, humankind and its cultural heritage will ultimately be condemned.

For more than 15 years, Tunick has staged mass nude installations all over the world. His collective landscapes always question humankind's relationship with its environment.

Under a magnificent sun and in a wonderful ambiance, Tunick achieved four different installations, two of them involving all participants, and one each involving only the women and the men, respectively. The participants and the Greenpeace team were all very happy to be part of an event relayed to most TV stations in France and to many international agencies.

In July 2007 I participated in "a large living sculpture, [to] be a part of a body landscape expressing humankind's vulnerability to climate change." Why? Because, with all those other people, I believe that "Another future is possible." (Greenpeace)

Another great photo from the Aletsch Glacier is on that site. It brings back some magnificent memories ...

Talk soon! Peace.