Almost 5,000 people sign up to take their place as part of sculptor´s ´living artwork´ in Trafalgar Square
Ever since Antony Gormley was commissioned to winch people up on a plinth in the middle of Trafalgar Square to do whatever they wished, doom-mongers have predicted the "living artwork" would become a soapbox for extremists, nudists and the nation´s most depraved exhibitionists.
But for the sculptor, there is only one worse outcome than this: for none of the above to happen.
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"Unless there is a degree of contention up there, it will have no teeth. The project will be limp... I would be very upset if somebody didn´t take their clothes off......
The nation came closer to finding out who would be drawn to Gormley´s theatre of the soapbox when internet registration began yesterday. By 3pm, 4,700 people had signed up.
Over 100 days, 2,400 randomly selected applicants will be carted on to the plinth for one hour each, to make incendiary speeches across the square or merely stare up at the clouds.
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"There will be those self-selecting exhibitionists that have been burning to communicate their acts or words ...
Gormley said that the artwork would also act as an "important archive" which would become a reference source at sociology and anthropology departments of the London School of Economics.
.. His critics, however, have said the greatest debate is whether this idea constitutes art at all.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts......1633407.html
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I will be one of the applicants..woohoo..
You brits..you will all see what a hairy Turk looks like.
Anthony Gormley is amazing... his sculptures are really wonderful...will try to post some pics..
