Anthony Gormley: 1 hour on 4th plinth

[xenon]

What will the quietest hours be, given that it's the middle of London. 2am - 730AM? Therefore, you have a high chance of having of getting a busier hour. Besides, it's streamed 24 hours a day on TV.

 

[xenon]

Right, if Anthony Gormley wants me to be a work of art for an hour, I want to know how much I will be paid for that hour. So called 'fame' for one hour standing still in cold London is not enough on its own. I need my time to be paid for and my transport costs paid. Details on application.

If however they can afford me, I will take photographs of the scene, the buildings and the crowd. Those photographs will remain my property and copyright. That is the best deal I can offer.

You're allowed a coat.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

That is a good point. I will also need the money to buy a new coat, on top of the hourly rate I will be demanding.

 

[Azrael]

Roll up, roll up, the Fourth Plinth Circus is back in town!

This is one of the better ideas. Until sense is seen and a statue of a giant pigeon erected, might as well have some variety. Now, where's my William IV costume ...

 

[DuckQuack'sEcho]

Isn't the Firth of Forth somewhere around Edinburgh?

 

[cybertect]

Indeed it is.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Roll up, roll up, the Fourth Plinth Circus is back in town!

This is one of the better ideas. Until sense is seen and a statue of a giant pigeon erected, might as well have some variety. Now, where's my William IV costume ...

You could dress up as a pigeon.

 

[beeboo]

I rather like the Angel of the Forth

 

[Crispy]

Mericless Merging

 

[beeboo]

oooh, upgraded to general

 

[Crispy]

oops. sorry the glory will be shortlived

 

[beeboo]

oops. sorry the glory will be shortlived

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Missed that. But it's a UK thing really. It's a great concept.

I'm still thinking. Loosely prepared drunken rant. Randomly throw down paper airplanes with written instructions obscured from the camera, to any passers by...

I like this idea, you'd have a work of performance art within an installation art work. Nice.

You could write a poem for them to read out loud. Tell them to dance a silly solo jig, or if they're with other people them and their mates or family have to start dancing a congo round Trafalgar Square. Or they have to give a random compliment to the person standing next to them. Tell them they have to start a Mexican wave and get other people to join in.

 

[baldrick]

I've been wondering what to do for my 40th birthday... was thinking of hiring a gite in France or a camping barn in the Peaks or Lakes or the South West... maybe I should just take a huge big birthday cake up there, get everyone in Trafalgar Square to sing happy birthday to me, and then blow the candles out, then cut the cake up and dish it out?

i like that.

wish i lived in london, i would definitely sign up.

 

[Etymologist]

Take a laptop and watch myself on the plinth

Is there going to be a webcam trained on it?