Spencer Tunick Brisbane
Participate with Pride for an Installation by Spencer Tunick.
New York-based contemporary Artist, Spencer Tunick is returning to Brisbane for a series of installations as part of the inaugural Melt 2024, the city’s major new festival celebrating queer art and culture.
The Nude Story Bridge 2024 installations for Melt will take place across Brisbane’s iconic Story Bridge, and nearby locations, on Sunday 27 October 2024.
The bridge will be closed for this art event which will feature thousands of live nude figures in celebration of diversity, equity, inclusion and Brisbane’s vibrant LGBTQIA+ community and allies.
You can be a part of this monumental Nude Story Bridge 2024 artwork by signing up to participate. Each participant will receive a print of the final artwork, taken by Spencer, as a gift of appreciation from Brisbane Powerhouse.
Join the after party at Howard Smith Wharves from 9am (cash bar).
NOTE: If you made a submission for Spencer’s previous 2023 Brisbane installation TIDE, your submission will be automatically included for the new 2024 installation RISING TIDE.
REGISTER FOR SPENCER TUNICK at https://www.melt.org.au/events/spencer-tunick-event
ABOUT Brisbane City Council Powerhouse’s MELT
Melt is our open access festival of Queer art and culture premiering in Brisbane from 23 October to 10 November 2024.
In 2024, Melt features:
– 120+ events
– 220+ individual performances
– 70+ venues
– 4 festival hubs
– 10,000 naked bodies
– A big boat parade
Born out of the success of Brisbane Powerhouse’s Melt Festival, Melt 2.0 takes pride in showcasing diverse arts and cultural events.
With an expanded lineup of venues and artists, this destination city-wide festival aims to foster inclusivity, provoke thought and celebrate LGBTQIA+ communities and artists in a city gearing up to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2032.
Melt is produced by Brisbane Powerhouse and supported by Tourism and Events Queensland, and Brisbane City Council, through Brisbane Economic Development Agency.
Catch the program at https://www.melt.org.au
PRIDE PLANTINGS TO RAINBOW ROADS – A DECADE OF DELIVERY
I know that LGBTIQ+ community make a huge contribution to the political, economic, cultural and social fabric of this city.
From the colour and vibrancy of Brisbane Pride activities, to the many authors and entrepreneurs, businessmen and women and community activists – everyone helps us shape our new world city and no place is seemingly as diverse and vibrant as Central Ward.
We are all of diverse faiths, diverse ethnicities, diverse levels of education and income, diverse backgrounds, diverse households – but we all have the same wish …. To create and even more inclusive city.
That’s what I have been doing since 2012.
Lord Mayor Schrinner’s team is proud of Brisbane’s rich LGBTQ+ history and culture and I have been delighted to spearhead inclusivity since 2012.
My DECADE OF DELIVERY for the LGBTIQ+ community includes –
- We delivered the rainbow footpath in Spring Hill in 2016 outside the Sportsman Hotel
- We delivered the rainbow City Glider in 2015 in celebration of the Brisbane Pride Festival.
- We started the MELT Queer Arts Festival at Brisbane City Council’s Powerhouse
- For the past 9 years Brisbane Queens Ball at City Hall has been supported to the tune of $188 000 – meaning more funds can be raised for their chosen charities.
- In 2016, Council became the first local government in Queensland to publicly support the legalisation of marriage between consenting adults regardless of gender, sexuality or gender identity.
- We were the first administration to raise the rainbow flag and illuminating Brisbane City Hall to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia Day (IDAHOT Day)
- We were the first administration to illuminate the Story Bridge in support of international days of significance such as LGBTIQ+ Day, World Aids Day, Transgender Day of Remembrance and Intersex Awareness Day
- In 2017, the administration we lead was the first local government in Australia to be listed on Australia’s LGBTI Inclusive Employers website.
- In 2018 the administration we lead was the first local government in Australia to be recognised with Gold Employer status at the Australian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTI) Inclusion Awards, again recognised at the 2019 awards.