{"id":72,"date":"2009-09-05T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2009-09-05T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T11:47:00","slug":"mini-rave-in-trafalgar-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/mini-rave-in-trafalgar-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini rave in Trafalgar Square!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One &#038; Other is a live artwork by sculptor Antony Gormley, giving 2,400 participants the chance to spend an hour alone on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square for 100 days and nights.<\/p>\n<p>Urban75 regular <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/images\/web01.gif\" width=\"10\" height=\"8\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneandother.co.uk\/participants\/Mation\">Mation<\/a> bagged herself a slot at the ungodly time of 2am to 3am on a chilly Friday morning, and a big turn out of Urbanites were in attendance to join in the party. And what a party it was!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-square-plinth-07.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-square-plinth-05.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Through some cunning technological wizardry, the music being played on the plinth was piped through this mobile sound system, getting the square resonating to techno.<\/p>\n<p>The security guard jobsworths kicked off, so the sound system was moved out of their jurisdiction to the north of the plinth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-square-plinth-08.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/> <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-square-plinth-13.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/> <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-square-plinth-23.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"287\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It felt like a proper old school rave, bringing back a little bit of the flavour of the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/traf10.html\">Reclaim the Streets event in 1997<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/traf-square-plinth-25.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/>&nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/trafalgar-square-plinth.html\" target=\"_blank\">urban75 rocking around the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One &#038; Other is a live artwork by sculptor Antony Gormley, giving 2,400 participants the chance to spend an hour alone on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square for 100 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,10],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-dance","tag-london"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/web011.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}