{"id":907,"date":"2009-08-12T19:26:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T02:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/ellen_ziegler_shares_the_plint\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T19:26:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T02:26:39","slug":"ellen_ziegler_shares_the_plint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/ellen_ziegler_shares_the_plint.html","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Ziegler shares the Plinth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Gormley’s fascinating Fourth Plinth project (live on the link One & Other<\/i><\/a>) features 2,400 randomly selected volunteers who each take the pedestal for an hour to do what they want: eat, lecture, dance, sunbathe, sit on a (portable) toilet, text friends, play music, strip, jog, paint, draw, read, clip their toenails, wave to friends, giggle, sing and do yoga. I saw a woman who yelled at anyone who looked at her, feeling, she said, stalked.<\/p>\n

Asked another, rhetorically:<\/p>\n

What am I symbolizing? Artist? Sex machine? Muppet?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seattle’s Ellen Ziegler<\/a> used her hour to enlarge the idea of the project. Holding a mirror, she directed it at those gazing up at her. In looking at her, they were looking at themselves. <\/p>\n

\"ellenziglermirror5.jpg\"<\/span>Watch Ziegler on the Plinth here<\/a>. (The tape starts with a minute or two of the final performance of toilet guy wearing a kind of ribbon-like diaper.)<\/p>\n

Participating (including travel expenses) cost her about $2,000, which she didn’t have.<\/p>\n

Wrote Ziegler: <\/p>\n

More than 120 donors contributed almost $2000 toward my travel and expenses, mostly in $10 donations. Why? I believe it’s because of the Quilting Bee Theory of Artist Funding<\/b>. As artists, we need short-term funding from time to time. You give me $10 when I need it now, then when you have an urgent funding need, I’ll give you $10.
\nCommunity support is essential in these times. I’m thrilled that it worked, not only for my sake, but to know that it’s a method to support each other, just like a quilting bee or a barn raising. 
\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Following is a (long) list of donors to date: <\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Ernie Ach
\nRosanna Albertini and Peter Kirby
\nDavid Anders
\nRobert Anger
\nJoe Ayres
\nJesi Asagi
\nShoshana Avree
\nClaudia Bach
\nCarol Bailey
\nScott Balsam
\nAnne Baumgartner
\nAnne Blackburn
\nSuzanne Beal
\nPaul Berger
\nJohn Boylan
\nBarbara Breckenfeld
\nLisa Buchanan
\nJoy Brown
\nCarole Burger
\nDenise Carillo
\nSheila Coppola
\nTom Collicott
\nMaren Costa and Pete Hilgendorf
\nJenny Craig
\nPamela Crawford
\nLinda Davidson
\nSedora DeBondt
\nLanny Devuono
\nBeth Dunn
\nEric Elliott
\nDeborah Fant
\nBrittany Faulkner
\nAnne Focke
\nAnn Gardner
\nJustin Gibbens and Renee Adams
\nTim Girvin
\nLayne Goldsmith
\nMandy Greer
\nRick Groman
\nAbigail Guay
\nDeborah Gunther
\nNancy Guppy
\nMiriam Hailparn
\nMike Hascall
\nVic Haven and Dave Lipe
\nLynn Hays
\nThom Heileson
\nDavid Hewitt and Marcia Wagoner
\nDawn Holladay
\nAnna Marie Hong
\nAlixe Hugret
\nEtsuko Ichikawa
\nRachel Illingworth
\nEva Isaksen
\nLouis Jaffe
\nLinda Jassim
\nShawn Jezerinac
\nCat Jobes
\nMachelle Jones
\nRedmond Johnston
\nLorna Jordan
\nVictoria Josslin
\nShaun Kardinal
\nCal Kinnear
\nAmanda Knowles
\nAlida Latham
\nCharles Laughlin
\nDeborah Lawrence and Mike Derry
\nMargaret Livingston
\nShanti Loustanou
\nKelly Lyles
\nJack Mackie
\nJanet Madill
\nRachael Mamane
\nAllison Manch
\nPam McClusky
\nTim McNeilly
\nDeborah Mersky
\nIris Milligan
\nWill Morgan
\nNina Moser and Charlie Rathbun
\nRachel McGovern
\nDeborah Mersky
\nWilliam Morgan
\nSaya Moriyasu
\nBea Nettles
\nMelissa Noble
\nRachel Norton
\nNicholas Nyland
\nDeborah Paine
\nMaryann Peters
\nLucy Pond
\nEd Posnak
\nDel Rey
\nTeresa Redden
\nMielle Riggie
\nArthur Rostoker
\nJoan Stuart Ross
\nKim Secunda
\nJune Sekiguchi
\nBarbara Shaiman
\nCharmaine Slaven
\nHarriet Soares
\nMichael Spafford and Elizabeth Sandvig
\nMargaret Stephens and Rodney Malham
\nKaty Stone
\nDanny Talpers
\nMolly Tenenbaum
\nGillian Theobald
\nJoanna Thomas
\nFran Thompson
\nAnne Traver
\nCarol Trenga
\nCathryn Vandenbrink
\nRichard Worthington and D. Lisa West
\nBryan Yeck
\nBrandon Zebold
\nJennifer Zeyl
\nSusan Zoccola
\nAnd a HUGE thank you to Don Aupperle, who had no idea what he was
\ngetting into when he volunteered to help build the big mirror
\ncontraption…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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