Rachel Whiteread's Plinth Thing

Is Rachel Whiteread the one that only has one tit?

-- The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, August 7, 2008 12:18 PM (1 minute ago)

What does this even mean?

It means that Dom is scrapping the zing barrel.

I'd like to see the statue of the Queen look like this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/slideshows/benson/b6.jpg

btw - has a winner been decided for this?

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/dailynews/2008/05/images_unveiled_for_ebbsfleet_landmark.html

whiteread's definitely isn't the worst proposal here but:

"Rachel Whiteread's proposal is for a craggy 'recycled mountain' on top which will sit a life-size cast interior of a house"

...again?

Wallinger's is clearly the best of these but i wonder if it can be realised for £2m. i seriously doubt it.

it's about NEGATIVE SPACE

THE SPACE BETWEEN SPACES

THE UNFOLDING OF A VISION

wallinger's is pretty great

you don't say. is it about silence as well? the difficulty of communication in the modren society?

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all horrible, the horse at least has potential for vandalism

it's a gigantic fking horse!

it's about NEGATIVE SPACE

THE SPACE BETWEEN SPACES

THE UNFOLDING OF A VISION

-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, August 7, 2008 12:30 PM (3 minutes ago)

Like, what is this, this adds nothing, you could do this with anything.

her psycho buildings thing was pretty good, yeah. but her tate modern installation was really really weak.

Never saw it so can't say anything.

but it doesn't look so great in photos.

Dude, it's about making the transient tangible. It explodes traditional concepts of spatiality without abandoning them. BLAH BLAH BLAH

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I saw it and liked it actually. Definetely better irl as it were.

Would have been even better if it been made with sugar.

BLAH BLAH BLAH

this seems to be about as much as you're capable of saying then.

the plinth modern art thing was a good idea except the ones that end up going on them are shit.

upside down plinth was shit, model of a hotel is shit.

bring back david beckham.

plinth needs marble rendering of ken c

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/Wellfuckyourshit.jpg

I liked Wallinger's plinth.

all of those ebbsfleet ones are shit too. i mean, if you just build a nice clocktower on there it'll be nicer than any of those nonsense

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And Gormley's plinth could be interesting.

Maybe we could put Gormley himself up there.

what actually motivates you to talk?

I go back and forth on Gormley, I'll be interested to see what he does?

plinth needs marble rendering of ken c

well this was my idea a while ago

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/kencplinth.jpg

I like it.
I especially like the guy at the bottom of the plinth crying at the sheer beauty he beholds.

her psycho buildings thing was pretty good, yeah

yeah it was! whiteread seems to veer randomly between really emotionally intuitive work and empty crap about nothing.

think a statue of the queen would be disappointing and regressive, a bit...what year is this again? why does this country give a shit about the royal family beyond the level of 'minor celebs falling out of boujis'? though i'd find it hard to get particularly angry if it did happen.

i like the idea of revolving artworks up there.

thought do ho suh's bisected american apartments w/the korean house crashing into the side was the best psycho building though

i'm all for not putting a statue of the queen up on the plinth except i can't think of anything in particular to go on there that's any better.

i'm going through every person i can think of just now and though "do i want a statue of this person on trafalgar square more than the queen" and each one of them returned no.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/10/ebbsfleet-landmark-mark-wallinger-horse

Difficult to say which of the shortlisted entries was worst. A fucking giant horse though. Why not, eh.

i loved his proposal but there's no way this can be built for anything close to £2m. all that huge structure sitting on 4 slim points roughly 3-4m square? the ability for all that bulk to withstand high winds? it's not impossible but it will have to be an act of engineering genius and it will cost £££.

Maybe they could find some way to suspend it so I could make my 'hung like a horse' joke.