Martin Creed

Martin Creed proposes to celebrate the opening and closing of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by asking Londoners to ring any bell they can find from bicycle bells to church bells as quickly and loudly as possible for three minutes. Creed also proposes to design a new Olympic bell, which can be sounded at the medal ceremonies during 2012 and will be replicated for future Games. The bell would be cast at Whitechapel Bell Foundry, famous for casting The Liberty Bell and Big Ben. The work will involve thousands of people, ringing bells on every street corner and welcoming the Olympiad and will be underpinned by an educational programme.
Location: London wide (including the Olympic Park and Whitechapel Bell Foundry)

Simon Elliott and Auro Foxcroft

Can London’s buildings feel?
 
Could the city become so charged with the Olympic spirit and sense of human excellence that the city’s architecture actually becomes animated and begins to move?
 

Artists working with community groups will interpret the tone, feel, emotions, play and actions of human excellence. Video projections will create the illusion that London’s buildings are breathing, feeling, leaning and turning. People’s feelings will move the buildings.
Breathing Humans Into Buildings will give people a unique spectacle, a fun empathising moment to remember, suitable for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
 
We wish to bring a more complex subtle interpretation to large audiences.
The art of projected 2D image developed on 3D software, called 'Video Mapping' is moving forward.  
We have invited artists from several creative disciplines, chosen for their moving image, art installations, VJ and animation, empathy with broad audiences, subtle understanding of visual signalling, and power to “animate the inanimate”.
 
The artists are: John Waters, Pippilotti Rist, Andy Serkis, Clint Dyer, Claire Denis, Tony Oursler, Carlos Acosta, Todd Haynes, Wim Wenders, Fraser Ayres, Jenny Sealey, Clint Dyer, Barbara Cruger, Simon Elliott, Auro Foxcroft and Todd Solondz.
All share an ability to capture sensuous, visceral, enthusiastic human expressiveness for the streets of London. All engage with communities and people passing in the street across London.
 
The project will offer people a conduit to express their feelings about human excellence on a spectacular public scale. The work could be described as a “video blotting paper”- it will soak up emotions and then hang them out for all to see and respond to.
 
 

Fuel

London producing company Fuel propose to create an imaginary world on the London Underground. Fuel for the Tube will transform London tube stations and carriages into places of childhood fascination where journey becomes synonymous with adventure. Fuel will commission 12 groups of theatre makers to create installations in 12 tube carriages that appear and disappear, surprise people and linger in their memories.

Nitin Sawhney

For Global Bedroom Orchestra, an international global orchestra of performers based in their bedrooms would perform a specially composed piece by Sawhney with a live British orchestra. The performance would be in the open air and the virtual players would be broadcast simultaneously, performing in perfect sync with the live orchestra. Based on the paradoxical theme of isolation and global connectivity, the project would challenge our perceptions of international boundaries, feature choreographed freerunners and reflect London’s multicultural communities.