Naked Australians At The Opera House

Over 5,200 people gathered at the Sydney Opera House to take part in a naked art installation examining “the vulnerability of life in a rough city landscape.”

I’m not quite sure how a bunch of naked people can have such meaning, but it sure looks like fun!

The artist, Spencer Tunick, is considered controversial and has been arrested seven times in the United States.

But I think maybe the Americans take it all too seriously. It’s not like it’s a bunch of drunk streakers running down the street just to get attention. If the man wants to make what he considers art surely there should be an exception to the laws on nudity.

The man is obviously quite popular:

Tunick has been documenting the nude figure in public through photography and video since 1992 and has hosted up to 100 installations involving thousands of naked people in countries around the world including the US, Britain, Brazil, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, France and Holland. His largest work to date involved 18,000 people posing in Mexico City in 2007.

And it’s not at all about eroticism as people might think.

“I thought it could be a bit awkward, but it’s funny because when you’re naked and everybody else is naked, you feel like you’re dressed, because everybody looks the same,” he said. “It’s really a weird experience because you think there could be something sexual behind, but there’s not.”

I’m sure there were a few erections here and there, it’s only natural. But so long as people weren’t having a mass orgy on the steps of the Opera House (which could also be fun in a whole other kind of way) then there’s no harm in it and some pretty great pictures will result from it.