The summer of 2009 will see Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, a space normally reserved for Kings and Generals, become a living sculpture.
The Plinth, which stood empty from 1841 until 1999, has now become the setting for contemporary art works and the latest piece, One & Other, created by sculptor Antony Gormley, will occupy the Plinth from 6th July until 14th October 2009.
Visitors to Trafalgar Square will see the sculpture change every hour throughout the day and night, for 100 hundred days non-stop, as a new person steps up to occupy the square.
Gormley invited the people of Britain to apply to become part of One & Other.Participants were picked at random and the rules are very simple. Occupants must stand on the plinth on their own for the full hour. They can take with them anything they can carry and can do whatever they like, sing, dance, recite poetry or drama, demonstrate, or simply stand still, as long as it's legal.
Many will ask if this is truly art? Whatever it is, it will certainly be representative of the times we live in.
Speaking to BBC News on 6th July 2009, Gormley described the living monument as "an experiment to pluck people from their daily lives and see what they look like as a representation of British life".
