Comments on: Who Wants to Bench? – a call for proposals

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:22:48 +0000

1st March has come and gone. I can’t wait to see what was proposed. Any ideas as to when they’ll be up for voting purposes?

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:30:50 +0000

Agreed, let’s have something to start looking at, peruse and discuss but not enable any actual voting yet until the deadline is up

By: Tyler & Anna

Tyler & Anna — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:32:47 +0000

Put them up, put them up. Not that we’re impatient little kiddie winks or anything.

By: saul

saul — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:21:49 +0000

After a slow start there have been some real corkers already. Should I put them online already? It seemed more fair to wait until the 1st March to put them up, but I guess it wouldn’t hurt as long as voting isn’t allowed yet.

What do people think about that?

Cheers,

Saul.

By: Matan

Matan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:04:39 +0000

Sorry for not showing up before…I like the Chumleigh Garden location!
Any news on bench designs?

By: Gabriel Norland

Gabriel Norland — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:20:19 +0000

Nice one Saul,

I live in Camberwell, if our bench was to be place in Chumleigh Gardens I could visit it on a regular basis! Look forward to hearing the report from the group meeting . . .

By: saul

saul — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:35:25 +0000

Interesting you should say that Ant – I just got a call from the parks manager at Southwark Council (where the Unicorn Theater is based). They heard about the event and the commission – and would like to talk about siting the democracy bench in ‘Chumley Gardens’: http://www.opensquares.org/detail/index.html?../detail/Chumleigh.html – which is having a new community garden built in the next year or so.

But there’s no reason that the bench couldn’t be sited on the 4th plinth temporarily, then moved to Chumleigh Gardens for posterity…

The Chumleigh Gardens user group are meeting on the 8th December to discuss the idea, so I’ll report back then, and we’ll have to extend the deadline for the call for proposals!

By: Ant Ince

Ant Ince — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:15:03 +0000

Good suggestions everyone. i wonder if the fourth plinth is a little too temporary. i’d really like to be able to sit on our bench over the years.

The circular bench pictured above would be excellent, inexpensive and i’m sure a nice local council would be happy to have a bunch of strangers pay for such a nice bench in one of their parks (they might also like the publicity it creates). My vote would go to the permanent park bench. Cheers

By: Andy Gibson

Andy Gibson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:33:24 +0000

Hello. I believe I am ‘that bloke who knows the fourth plinth lady’.

The fourth plinth lady informs me that the next Fourth Plinth commission is Anthony Gormley, who’s proposed putting members of the public on there:
http://www.london.gov.uk/fourthplinth/plinth/gormley.jsp There will be an application process then people will be chosen at random and given slots at random. Details will be posted on fourthplinth.co.uk but nothing is up yet.

The following commission will be Yinka Shonibare:
http://www.london.gov.uk/fourthplinth/plinth/shonibare.jsp

After that, if it continues, there will be another longlist which would be put together by the commissioning group – so essentially it’s by invitation. Borough councils will probably choose community groups and invite them to produce or propose work.

I wouldn’t get too hung up on this, there’s a lot of process involved and we need to focus on doing our own commissioning rather than getting a commission from them – but if build it, perhaps they will come…

By: Wai-Yee Chan

Wai-Yee Chan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:47:13 +0000

I have a suggestion for an artist. Friedel Buecking, I dont know him pesonally but love the stuff that is out on show in Gabriels warf.

http://www.coinstreet.org/shopeatdrink/shopkeeper_detail.aspx?smenu=&shkpid=81f938f1-de9c-4da9-b6f4-e8026f61019c