One & Other

Antony Gormley, July 6 to October 14, 2009 Gormley put no sculpture on the plinth at all. For 100 days, around the clock, members of the public took it in turns to stand up there for an hour each, 2,400 of them chosen at random, and the project gave the language the word "plinther." What each person did with the hour was up to them, so the results ranged from moving to forgettable. Taken whole, it made the most democratic statement the square has hosted: the pedestal reserved for heroes, handed to whoever's name came up.