I've read about the Forth Plinth project in Trafalgar Square, on and off over the last year or so. I guess they were (and possibly still are) taking applications for participation.
For those of you like me, who live on an entirely different continent, what this is, is a combination modern art/performance art project, being done by artist Anthony Gormley.
There are four plinths in the square--three are mounted with traditional statues...the forth is empty. What is being proposed by a modern artist, is that before the plinth is surmounted by a "proper" artwork in 2010 (Admiral Nelson's ship in a bottle), is that people occupy the top of the plinth for one hour, 24 hours a day, a different person every hour, for x-number of days.
People occupying the plinth can do whatever they please--as long as it's legal. They can sit and meditate, dress up and perform, recite poetry, do quotations from Shakespeare, pose like models, sit and read, fly a kite, spout political discourse, have a picnic lunch...whatever they want.
That sounds totally cool. I'd do it...well, if I was British or a very wealthy American and could afford to hop a jet or a boat or whatever, and go over and do it.
http://www.london.gov.uk/fourthplinth/
