#263 - Snapping Nudes to Save The Dead Sea (Ari Leon Fruchter)

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Buy our mugs here: https://2njb.com/merch/ *** A month ago 300 Israelis striped naked and posed in the middle of the desert. This demonstration was part of an art installation photographed by world renowned photographer Spencer Tunick. And this wasn’t the first time. Back in 2011, there were 1,200 subjects, all naked, photographed by Tunick. But all this wasn’t done to simply photograph a bunch of nudists in the desert. There was a bigger motivation. Ari Leon Fruchter, the man who staged this whole thing, hopes these images will raise awareness and ignite a wave of activism that may help slow or even stop the disappearance of the Dead Sea. We are thrilled today to be joined by Ari Leon Fruchter to talk nudism, environmentalism and activism. So many isms. https://www.thedeadseamuseum.com

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Aiton Weinstein.
0:01.7	And I'm Naor Menninger, and you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.
0:12.2	In collaboration with Australian Jewish News, check them out at AJN.com.
0:19.7	Also in collaboration with Arutshevava, Israel National News.com.
0:40.3	About a month ago, 300 Israelis stripped naked and posed in the middle of the desert. This demonstration was part of an art installation photographed by world-renowned photographer Spencer Tunic.
0:46.3	And this wasn't the first time. Back in 2011, there were 1,200 subjects, all naked, photographed by by tunic but all this wasn't done to
0:57.1	simply photograph a bunch of nudists in the middle of the desert there was a bigger motivation
1:02.3	ari Leon Fruchman the man Frouchtur
1:06.2	Frouchtur Fruchtur
1:09.4	Fructor and a man excuse me Ari Leon Fruchter and a man. Excuse me.
1:11.3	Excuse me.
1:12.4	Ari Leon Fruchter.
1:13.5	The man who staged this whole thing hopes these images will raise awareness and ignite a wave of activism that may help slow or even stop the disappearance of the Dead Sea.
1:25.2	We are thrilled to be joined today by Ari Leon Früchtar
1:29.0	to talk nudism, environmentalism, and activism, and maybe some other isms. Thank you so much for
1:35.6	joining us. How are you? It's my pleasure. Thank you for having me. So, first of all,
1:39.9	sorry, I hate when people get my name wrong, so I apologize. So where did this crazy idea come from?
1:47.0	I mean, it actually was an evolution.
1:49.0	Spencer Tunic is an artist and close friend that I've known for about 30 years.
1:53.0	We met in New York back in 1992 when I was a fashion designer and paper magazine wanted to do a feature on me and he was
2:01.7	freelancing. He had just finished a school of visual arts and was looking to stab
2:05.5	himself as an artist. But on the side he was doing some work for paper. We met in his
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Eytan and Naor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Eytan and Naor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.