Around 600 naked volunteers formed a “living sculpture” on Switzerland’s largest glacier yesterday to raise awareness of climate change and glacial melting.
Standing on the Aletsch Glacier with only a warm sense of self-satisfaction to keep them warm, the assembled masses endured temperatures of around 10C while being photographed in the all-together by acclaimed New York artist Spencer Tunick.
Standing on a stepladder and bellowing through a megaphone, Tunick directed five separate camera crews and the eager participants who had travelled from all over Europe.
“The melting of the glaciers is an indisputable sign of global climate change,” said environmental group Greenpeace, who co-organised the event.
A spokesperson for the campaign said the aim of the project was to “establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body”.
The spokesperson added that this was managed in an eco-friendly way to minimise any impact on the environment, before warning that Swiss glaciers could disappear by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace.
Tunick’s previous projects have featured mass nudity in London, Newcastle and Amsterdam, but these events were dwarfed in May 2007 when the artist photographed 18,000 people in the buff in the centre of Mexico City.
Click here for Greenpeace website
Click here for Spencer Tunick website
enough to flow msg
Comment by prachee — August 20, 2007 @ 9:53 am
Melting of icebergs in south and north pole will bring hazardous destruction all over the world.
Comment by suraj verma — August 21, 2007 @ 12:16 pm
I think that people really need to be interested in the global movement especially Global Cool do to the fact that places as beautiful as Finland will seize to exist as these glaciers melt away.
Comment by Jenne — August 23, 2007 @ 4:04 pm
hi i used sleep in a/c everyday in all the seasons.but now i dont even put it on.my wife make it happen.
Comment by santosh & shirley — August 26, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
Hi,
I would be promoting the message to prevent Carbon Emissions through my workshops on Vedic Maths to all my students.
I hope we all take action as every step counts.
Comment by Gaurav — August 26, 2007 @ 8:30 pm
Well this is true and its gonna cause a lot of harm to all of us as well as to our mother nature… Please protect it.
Comment by Moiz — August 27, 2007 @ 7:02 am
The naked consequences of the industrial revolution are revealing themselves year by year. Glabal warming will devast portions of nature, but peak oil will soon enough erradicate all of what we have come to see as civilization.
Comment by chris rubach — August 27, 2007 @ 10:05 pm
This is stupendous, messages like these needs to flow and glad that not one, not two but 600 enthusiasts were ready to work for the cause to send out a communication to the sleeping community. Way to Go !
Comment by Puneet — August 28, 2007 @ 9:42 am
Join 200,000 boats as we sail around the world for global warmning
www.outtoseaandoverboard.com
Comment by Christopher Rousseau-Villella — September 12, 2007 @ 1:25 am
HI EVERY THING IS GOING TO BE END .BE AWARE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. WE CANNOT OFFER A TERRIBLE HOME TO OUR NEXT GENERATION. ITS OUR DUTY TO MAKE IT SAFE FOR THEM.
Comment by Susmita Roy — November 21, 2007 @ 7:40 am