When: March 2009
Where: Tokyo

No, not a trans-continental relo­ca­tion to Tokyo, but an intro­duc­tion to the UK’s most talked about pub­lic art pro­ject as part of the sunset-to-sunrise Rop­pongi Art Night. To build a bridge between Tokyo and London’s cre­at­ive inter­ven­tion with pub­lic spaces, the Brit­ish Coun­cil co-presented a talk between Ekow Eshun, Artistic Dir­ector of ICA and Chair of the Com­mis­sion­ing Group of the Fourth Plinth, and Fumio Nanjo, Dir­ector of Mori Art Museum.

Ekow Eshun (Artistic Dir­ector of ICA and Chair of the Com­mis­sion­ing Group of the Fourth Plinth, and Fumio Nanjo, Dir­ector of Mori Art Museum)

Eshun explained the vis­ion and com­mis­sion­ing cri­teria of the Fourth Plinth, one of the most sig­ni­fic­ant pub­lic art pro­jects in Bri­tain, as well as the cul­tural con­text within which pub­lic art is presen­ted in the UK. Eshun gave a pre­view of the next com­mis­sion, One & Other by Ant­ony Gorm­ley, which will see the plinth occu­pied for one hun­dred days, one hour at a time, by volun­teers from all over the coun­try, mak­ing a liv­ing sculp­ture – an art work that’s a por­trait of the people of Britain.

Links:
http://www.roppongiartnight.com/en/index.html
http://www.london.gov.uk/fourthplinth
http://www.oneandother.co.uk/