Empty Spectacle?
Backpackers in London keen to be part of a public art exposition should get along to Trafalgar Square in the coming months.
Over the course of a period of 100 days, members of the public will be given the opportunity to stand on a plinth – day and night – for an hour.
The artist, Antony Gormley, is quoted as saying: “Through elevation on to the plinth and removal from common ground, the body becomes a metaphor, a symbol and allows us to reflect on the diversity, vulnerability and particularity of the individual in contemporary society.”
Whether or not that’s any consolation for standing on a plinth, in the rain, at four in the morning, remains to be seen.
