Participants in a new scheme that allows regular people to stand on a large piece of concrete in a public area and be stared at like a circus act are claiming that the experience is not only thrilling, but fulfills their need to have undue attention paid to them.

The One & Other project in Trafalgar Square, a piece of art (which these days counts as what you get away with) created by Andrew Gormley, allows members of the public to live out their fantasies of being a ‘living statue’ for one hour standing on the empty plinth while spreading a personal and more than likely slightly right wing and ill-informed message.

Margaret James, a housewife with very little to do, was the first person allowed to scale the plinth and stand around achieving nothing (much like the rest of her life but more public). James chose to hold up a sign protesting against the issue of ‘Bonsai Cats,’ a process by which cats are grown in small jars and fed through tubes so that they can be kept as windowsill ornaments.

James said after that the experience, “It was just like being on Big Brother. For a moment i thought about taking my example Bonsai Cat jar and shoving it up my fanny just to embarass my mum and see if i couldn’t get my picture in The Sun.”

In the tradition of true art, and other such ill-organised and ridiculous stunts like this, the opening of the project was hijacked by a limber man dead-set on spreading a message about how smoking kills, which is something we here at Cultsha would like to make clear is both untrue and a vile smear against the tobacco companies that built and sustain this great nation.