Applications can now be submitted by anyone wanting to be part of Antony Gormley's
One and Other, a work featuring a different person standing on a plinth in London's Trafalgar Square 24-hours per day for 100 days. A computer will be doing most of the work, reports
The Guardian. It will 'randomly' select applicants by not randomly ensuring an equal distribution of gender and regionality. Gormley has a surprisingly entertaining daily
blog on the site, highlights from which include public suggestions for a title for the plinth sitters, ranging "from 'Angel of the plinth' to 'Stuck up' (nice pun, CultureVultures) to shorter, catchy words like 'Plinthian' (courtesy of Matt_Tucker), 'Plithizen' (thanks, EliotF!) and 'Plinthipals' (from Jane Clyne)". Today Gormley describes '
the pleasure' he had while making a short film with British broadcaster Vanessa Feltz (whose sister, according to
Wikipedia, runs a violin and roof repair shop), a supporter of the project. Oscar-winning actress
Julie Christie has already signed up as an ambassador and left the following rather wonderful endorsement of it: "It has nothing to do with war, which makes a change from the usual way of men on plinths". The project begins on 6 July.
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