Many faces: Representations, legacies and memories

Over the last week, I've been drawn more and more into thinking about the mode of representations at work in One and Other and its legacy. The work contends to be a piece of public art that is constituted by the public. The open lottery system for allocating places achieves this. On the website then, all the 'plinthers' are given the opportunity to share images of themselves, information and stories about what they plan to do or really anything. Then the 'plinthers' have their hour on the plinth which is globally webcasted, and finally, the hour of plinthing is archived and accessible by the public through the website.

This is all well and good if the terms of 'the public' is limited to contemporary media consumption. But what is the legacy of the project. Given that the project is occupying a traditionally understood space of commemoration and memorialisation (that of a monument's plinth), I wonder how the project will be remembered. Will any of the 2400 people who constituted the work themselves be represented in the residual memory or archive of the work, or will all of our own identities/images/representations be subsumed into a meta-memory - a meta-narrative of Antony Gormley's artistic work? Will any of the plinthers be remembered? Or is the agency and identity that ultimately will be reflected over time simply be that of the artist as conceiver?