IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE at ONE AND OTHER
TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON 24 July, 2009

The story: I was chosen by lottery out of over 24,000 applicants to be part of One and Other, an event curated by noted British contemporary artist Antony Gormley. He asked participants to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days between July and October, creating a portrait of the UK. A different person occupied the plinth each hour. The other three sculpture plinths in the Square are occupied by statues of kings and generals, representing the status quo of power for hundreds of years.

I expanded my work with mirrors into an interactive performance on the Fourth Plinth at 9:00 am UK time, July 24, 2009. Live webcams broadcast in real time. Here's the link to my hour on the Fourth Plinth in London, 24 July 2009: http://www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/ellenziegler
After the video starts, fast-forward about 15 minutes or so; that's when the TV cameras got the mirror angle right. They did an amazing job; all improvised in the moment, 24 hours a day. (If you start at the beginning, don't say I didn't warn you. There's about five minutes of a guy in a Borat Thong sitting on a toilet.)

Donations: over 120 donors contributed to the Quilting Bee Method of Artist Funding.

Thank you all so much for getting me there.

It's clear that people have donated because of a wish to act in community and to support the arts as much as in order to support me as an individual artist. A list of donors appears below. If your name isn't there, please let me know.

The quilting bee model of fundraising: As artists, we can raise our own “grants” if we help each other; just like barn raising or a quilting bee, we can support ourselves as a community. I had this opportunity, and I asked for $10 from you. When you need a "grant", I and our community can send you our contributions.

Let’s make the Quilting Bee grant model a reality! And thanks to Allied Arts for sponsorship.

Quilting Bee Method of Artist Funding
Donors:
Ernie Ach
Rosanna Albertini and Peter Kirby
David Anders
Robert Anger
Joe Ayres
Jesi Asagi
Shoshana Avree
Claudia Bach
Carol Bailey
Scott Balsam
Anne Baumgartner
Linda Beaumont
Anne Blackburn
Suzanne Beal
Paul Berger
Gloria Bornstein
John Boylan
Barbara Breckenfeld
Joy Brown
Lisa Buchanan
Carole Burger
Denise Carillo
Sheila Coppola
Tom Collicott
Maren Costa
Jenny Craig
Linda Davidson
Sedora DeBondt
Lanny Devuono
Beth Dunn
Eric Elliott
Deborah Fant
Anne Focke
Ann Gardner
Justin Gibbens and Renee Adams
Tim Girvin
Layne Goldsmith
Mandy Greer
Rick Groman
Abigail Guay
Deborah Gunther
Nancy Guppy
Mike Hascall
Vic Haven and Dave Lipe
Lynn Hays
Thom Heileson
David Hewitt and Marcia Wagoner
Dawn Holladay
Anna Marie Hong
Alixe Hugret
Etsuko Ichikawa
Rachel Illingworth
Eva Isaksen
Louis Jaffe
Shawn Jezerinac
Cat Jobes
Machelle Jones
Redmond Johnston
Lorna Jordan
Victoria Josslin
Shaun Kardinal
Cal Kinnear
Amanda Knowles
Alida Latham
Charles Laughlin
Deborah Lawrence
Margaret Livingston
Shanti Loustanou
Kelly Lyles
Jack Mackie
Janet Madill
Rachael Mamane
Allison Manch
Pam McCluskey
Iris Milligan
Jen Mills
Will Morgan
Nina Moser and Charlie Rathbun
Rachel McGovern
Deborah Mersky
William Morgan
Saya Moriyasu
Bea Nettles
Melissa Noble
Deborah Paine
Mary Ann Peters
Ed Posnak
Del Rey
Teresa Redden
Mielle Riggie
Kim Secunda
June Sekiguchi
Barbara Shaiman
Charmaine Slaven
Harriet Soares
Michael Spafford and Elizabeth Sandvig
Margaret Stephens and Rodney Malham
Katy Stone
Danny Talpers
Gillian Theobald
Fran Thompson
Anne Traver
Carol Trenga
Cathryn Vandenbrink
Leslie Welty
Bryan Yeck
Orah Young
Brandon Zebold
Jennifer Zeyl
Susan Zoccola

And a HUGE thank you to Don Aupperle, who had no idea what he was getting into when he volunteered to help build the big mirror contraption...