Rachel Lockwood looks out over Trafalgar Square from the fourth plinth
Between July and October this year, the famously unoccupied Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square is the scene for an intriguing public art project masterminded by Antony Gormley called One & Other. Every hour a different member of the public is lifted up onto the empty plinth to do… something.
[Gormley] is asking the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals, in an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity.
Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, different people will make the Plinth their own. If you’re selected, you can use your time on the plinth as you like – to demonstrate, to perform, or simply to reflect. Participants will be picked at random, chosen from the thousands who will enter, to represent the entire population of the UK. The rules are simple: you must stand on the plinth alone, for the whole hour; you can do whatever you want, provided it’s legal; and you can take anything with you that you can carry.
You can play your part in making this idea a reality – either by volunteering yourself, by telling others about it, or by experiencing it online or on the square itself.
One of the chosen 2400 people (out of more than 33,000 applicants) is a young composer called Rachel Lockwood, and at 8am today, she was lifted up on to the plinth with her laptop and MIDI keyboard to do some composing — using Sibelius, of course.
If you’d like to experience Rachel’s hour in the sunshine atop the plinth for yourself, you can watch a video on the One & Other project’s web site.
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