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    Art project comes to life in London

    webmasterBy webmasterAugust 26, 2014Updated:August 26, 2014 Arts and Life No Comments2 Mins Read
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    London is now home to interactive statues of historical and fictional characters that tell users about their lives.Associated Press
    London is now home to interactive statues of historical and fictional characters that tell users about their lives.
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    By Sylvia Hui
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    LONDON — Calling all London tourists: Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes and Queen Victoria want to have a word with you.

    A new interactive arts project is giving a voice to dozens of statues of historical and fictional characters in London, allowing them to tell their stories and entertain curious visitors and weary commuters as they pass by.

    “Every city everywhere has statues that go ignored,” Colette Hiller, creative director of arts producers Sing London, said Tuesday at the project’s launch. “So we thought about how we could work with the writers, the actors, the comedians from that city to bring them to life.”

    To get an instant “call” from one of the statues — say from one depicting Isaac Newton at the British Library — people can swipe their smartphones on a plaque to scan a digital code, or type in a web address. They can then listen to a monologue from the character, played by actors including Patrick Stewart and Hugh Bonneville, famous from the British TV series “Downton Abbey.”

    Stewart voices the Unknown Soldier at Paddington station, while Bonneville speaks for Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the engineer best known for building many of England’s most important railways and tunnels.

    In total, 35 statues in London and Manchester are featured. The choices are eclectic: Along with Holmes, who laments the absence of Dr. Watson by his side at Baker Street station, there’s author Samuel Johnson’s cat Hodge and an unnamed couple on a bench. Some educate with a bit of history, but most come with a dose of humor.

    Queen Victoria’s starts: “Thank you for calling me on this strange machine. I have become very bored sitting here all day holding an extremely heavy scepter and orb.”

    The statues will talk for a year, and organizers hope to bring them to other cities.

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