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Starting tonight at 8pm, Sky Arts( channel 256) is giving anyone an hour on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar square to do what ever they like.

People have been applying since February this year , and 2400 people have been chosen , not by audition, but by their location in the country,

to do what ever for an hour, 20 ft in the air on the plinth that is about 10 ft long and 6 ft wide.

The show will be live on the website oneandother.co.uk

It runs 24 hours a day  for 100 days .

Leading British artist, Antony Gormley, today launched his nationwide work, One & Other, by inviting people, aged 16 and over, from across the UK to participate in the creation of a unique living monument on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. One & Other will run for 100 days from 6 July – 14 October 2009 and will involve 2,400 people from all over the UK who will stand on the plinth for an hour each.

oneandother.co.uk (http://oneandother.co.uk)

I think theres a demo running just now , it goes live at 8pm

will the crow show be appearing on the plinth?

Yes I am going on Saturday, but its my daughter who doing it, shes on at 6pm

cool, what's she doing?

Its started, first up is" man and folding bike" WOW

This is art in the same way the David Blaine in the box is magic.

yes its a bad start. Don't fancy the 3am show .

Get Kev up there advertising the Equal Chance sattilites.

12 am to 1 am  Tuesday morning

Its Crow Girl with poster saying  " Feed the pidgeons "

I did not know girls could fly !

Shes been saying " COO " COO " a lot

So theres only 2396 to go

 ;applause;

OK 1 am to 2 am its camera guy with a tripod taking pictures

in the dark

v exciting, worth the 2 million lottery grant already

OK HOws it done, they use a portable elevator

1pm to 2pm today was a v nice lady sketching passers by.

is that supposed to be a & between ME MY?

This is not art

Live webcam feed here - http://www.oneandother.co.uk/

best one so far was a man dressed as a Tuna , asking us to save the Tuna from over fishing

Worst was turd man complaining, half the world does not have a toilet

Its 1am and Helen Barker is up there as Britannia

Theres a lot of drunken hecklers giving her some stick

In case you missed it, heres the opening wih Boris Johnston

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZEaNFCgpqc

Some thoughts to chuck about.

It probably doesn't have much artistic merit if you view it terms of individual works performed by the people on the Plinth.
The artist is not on the top of the plinth. The artist is the unseen creator and engineer of the whole idea.

The piece perhaps does have artistic merit then, if we view the people on the plinth not as artists, rather they are part of the work. Indeed, what they do being largely irrelevant to the meaning and impact of the piece as a whole.

I guess you could see it as a somewhat satirical metaphor on today's society and it's celebrity consumption. That's my take on it anyway. Else that or any number of things that stem from the look and see what the British public do with a plinth and 60 minutes idea.

As an aside I guess this isn't "proper" street theatre because of the detachment and physical distance from the street and it's people. In keeping with my interpreatation of the piece as a whole though, you could see this as being deliberate. The protaganists and their (near enough) 15 minutes being detached from the real world, you can view them at a distance only. The plinth is the TV and the magazine.


Whatever the story, I do like pieces of art that involve members of the public viewing the art, or interacting with it in any sense, as part of the art itself.

Perhaps the late night time slot that the women dressed in the silly outfit was given was not an accident. Would people going home from a night out have hurled abuse at a man with a camera? Probably not I think.
I like the idea or drunk people wanting to be derisory but unwittingly becoming part of a piece of art in the way the artist intended.


Then again, it could just be on the level and pants.

Thanks for the comments Tank,

One guy today from 11am to 12 noon just stood and watched everyone looking at him

When asked why he did not do anything, he shouted " Its just great to be up here, and to see the view"

Next up was a lady with 1000 paper airplanes each with a message.The kids loved chasing the planes and the crowd encouraged her to see how far they would go.

Most popular with the crowd a few days ago was the guy throwing chocolates into the crowd

As a retired builder,I cannot understand why there is no handrail around the plinth.

 Any health and safety inspector would issue a prohibition notice , and condemn anyone going up there.

The elevator has handrails and gates , but a strong gust of wind could blow a plinthers over the side for sure

This might make me watch it.

It looks like there's a net to catch them though :(

it actually makes me happy that there is something in this country that the h&s morons haven't ruined

If anyone does trip or fall, the netting will act as a trampoline and bounce them over the side.

Its a long way down, about 25 feet on the one side

*tunes in*

paper plane woman would've been screwed if it rained for her hour

I think you just sold me on this. Going to the metoffice website first to make sure it's windy...if it is I'm tuning in.

I think this is it.

Essentially, the British public have been given the chance to show what they would do with an hour of attention. They've mostly

a) highlighted some cause important to them
b) dressed up in costumes
c) generally arsed about

all of which I think are fair enough.

The guy that's up there now says he's just going to go up there and eat his lunch, which he never normally manages to get enough peace and quiet to do when he's at work, which is nice.

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Well done on 1,000 posts Crow

Cheers for putting us on to this plinth thing, I think it's great.

nh

Pure class

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aha care in the community

OK , back to this safety net issue, This angle shows you the net is not very wide

 and you can see there are holes in the base to put posts or handrails.

Guess they may obstruct the cameras if they used them, how thoughtful

Someone put this on the oneother webpage, its great

Not much to report tonight, man sat in deckchair reading book, is on now

The last hour was pretty cool. Flushy was trying to shimmy up the plinth with the intention of mounting whatever was on the top. His progress impeded by Claw standing underneath him with a hosepipe showering him with the collected tears of all the women of blonde. Trigg is at the bottom taking bets from the assembled mad punters, a large group of people that does not include EvilPie who is sitting on some steps and looking in the other direction.

I'm not too sure what it all means.

;D

just found another feature on here. You can click on plinthers

and click their picture " Tell me more "and the whole hour can be seen again

but you can fast forward by moving the slider to all the best heckling

will post the best ones on here later

here's a Lord Lucan Lookalike, use the slider to fast forward

http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Hypercoles

Here's girl on rowing machine being heckled at 27 minutes in

http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/GenGen


Now heres Shambles the Cow from Scotland http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Shambles

Now here's red coat entertainer Craig try 54 minutes fast forward  http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Craig_P

bet me i wont go and throw a brick at one of them

ok  a fiver if you miss em and a tenner for the hit......

OK, at 6pm tonight the Crow family descended down to Trafalgar square for Miss Crow's plinth Hour

She read messages from all her form class in Leicester, plus posters they had made .She read poetry an verse for the last 30 minutes

Miss Crow looks pretty.

She looks happy. Hope it was a good day.

n1, hope you all had a good time.

Ok, Tonight from 10pm till 11pm was " Man hides under sheet "

Maybe it was Cf after his RSQ ordeal

The good news is that the fourth plinth is more popular than Big Brother

             http://www.oneandother.co.uk/

100% he's cracking one off

haha, sums up what i was feeling quite well!

Tonight from 10pm to 11pm was "Disco Bike man " who powered his mobile disco by pedalling to drive a generator

Clever chap

Heres a few more as well

Panda man , laural who took pictures and gave out glowsticks

A lady who put all her favorite shoes around the plinth and spent the hour holding up each pair and saying how great they were

a lady dressed as a rabbit and bounced on a hopper for an hour

and lidl man

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ask the mods to merge this with the crow tales, i miss that thread

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So it has ended at 9 am this morning

Was it any good , or a waste of time , you decide

Here what Gormley said



So 100 days of continuous occupation of a statue's plinth by 2400 real people has ended. It has changed my life and that of many others. No fewer than 2,400 people from as far afield as the Shetland Islands and Penzance have occupied the plinth for sixty minutes each, picked at random from nearly 35,000 who applied.

Who can be represented in art? How can we make it? How can we experience it? These are questions that have exercised me for years. Whether you see the plinth as a protest or pole-dance platform; studio or stocks; playpen or pulpit; as a frame for interrogation or for meditation, it has provided an open space of possibility for many to test their sense of self and how they might communicate this to a wider world.

Antony Gormley, October 2009

what are you going to do next crow?

how did miss crow's class like what she did?

I just don't understand it as art - I found it entertaining at times when I popped on the site to have a look but art?

Is there a new definition for art or was it just an opportunity for people to play to a crowd for an hour on a plinth in Trafalgar Square - I'm not sure.