[Insert Sail Away, Enya & any Metaphor you wish]
The fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, was originally intended to host an equestrian statue of William IV. Unfortunately for him, and luckily for the artists of Londinium, insufficient funds kept the podium empty for many years until 1999, when the Royal Society of Arts came up with the brilliant idea of the Fourth Plinth Project; a platform for artistic displays and uncommissioned public stunts. Amongst these, so far, a model of David Beckham by Madame Tussauds for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, a marble torso bust of Alison Lapper (an artist afflicted by phocomelia) in 2005, and in 2009 the “One and Another” where 2400 selected members of the public spent an hour each on the plinth, doing anything they wanted.
...and apparently, THIS is what they wanted...
