Posted by Roger on August 25, 2004 at 02:15:00:
In Reply to: Re: Spencer Tunick in Buffalo posted by Aaron on August 24, 2004 at 04:00:53:
Friday, 13 Aug, we went to the "Tunick Reveal Party" at MOCA; we were there from 6PM till about 10 PM and now have our copies of the Cleveland Installation Photo.( I was able to enlarge it on our computer and think I found Betsy and I !! ) We saw Betsy briefly in the video footage of the event.. I saw a couple of people we met again later in Buffalo, including Jae Davis(Hello, Jae- I'm the short bearded guy). Saturday we packed and left for Buffalo at about 7:00 PM got there about 10:30 PM.
15 Aug 04 Unlike Cleveland Installation, this one was inside, at the Central Terminal. It is a very old train depot in Buffalo, NY and in very bad shape, needs lots of repair. We arrived about 11:00AM, met some friends from the last install including L. from Buffalo and the Kilt man from IL(Jae), and some new friends, G. a Buffalo woman, and a woman from Montreal neither of whom had posed before .We saw Spencer briefly. The assistants and Spencer were adamant about there being no nudity before we were told to undress, which was too bad as it was hot and several of us wanted to undress, women as well as men. One younger woman did take her top off, as did several of us men. We were separated then into men and women, the women going in to pose like the Grand Central Install, so as to contrast them later in an exhibit. About 12: 00 PM the women were told to undress in front of us, which led to a few smartass remarks but not many, and some men then clapped and cheered. According to my wife, they went through about 3 poses. About 30 min later we were told to undress and go in. We passed a few dressed female volunteers who didn’t want to join us, and a female security guard likewise. When we went in those of us who were with women tried to find them, but in a sea of pink it was difficult. I didn’t find my wife but found L., and G. and saw Montreal a little ways away, though never spoke to her again.. After a few poses with lots of difficulty understanding what Spencer wanted, we were again devided into groups, but according to age, unlike Cleveland. The under 30’s were asked to leave first. Then the 30 to 50 group posed and were asked to leave, and finally us 50 + folks posed. The strongest pose in that was in the high side windows which looked down from the old office stairway. About four or five floors, in a Roman arc. Posed with oldest on ground floor, next oldest on up, till full he still had leftover people. We later posed lying stretched out like the 9th shoot but on the balcony over the ticket windows. It was over about 3:00 PM and a nice young lady who had been waiting on her over 50 male companion took nude snapshots of Betsy and I with the Terminal in the background, then a student art photographer came along, saw me standing, still nude and asked if she could do one of me, called it "Last Man Standing"( She is supposed to email or mail it.) and then Betsy took a few more of me nude on the gounds with a few of the volunteers there but they left without saying anything to us. There were three other participants there, a man and his female companion, and a male buddy of his. They were having a beer near where we parked. I spoke with them, then found Betsy wanted some more shots of me nude on some rocks. The one guy was willing to join us but the couple were not interested, though amused. We left about 4:PM, and raced over to the Albright-Knox Museum to see the exhibit there that had 3 of Spencer's photos including Betsy's favorite "Z in the desert" taken in 1997 at the burning Man in Nevada. We met Melvin(the guy in the Mohawk with the huge back tattoo) there who told us he had been asked by Spencer to pose, and who gave me the address of the "after party" ,at a small private Polish club near the site. We had supper and then at 8:00 PM went to "Mickey's" . We went ran into G.and L.
There is more to this story but you have to belong to the MSN group on Spencer or the Yahoo group