Anyone who knows the slightest thing about bell ringing will be unsurprised by this story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15635252
What is clear is that Mr Martin Creed has no idea about bell ringing (and the BBC has no idea that the term "campanologist" may get you punched in the serious bell ringing fraternity.)
The 27th of July 2012 is a Friday. Any bell ringers who work (or, in the case of some of the ringers in our local church, go to school or uni) will not be available to ring at 8am because they will be on their way to work - many of them in London and its environs having left early because getting to work is going to be hell during the Olympics. The original plan to ring all bells (including door bells) at 4am would have been feasible but would have caused ructions, even if the ringers had agreed. (Round here, they would have had the dogs and shotguns turned on them.)
Further more you never ring bells "as loudly as possible for three minutes" - hell, it's not worth going into the tower for that.
The amazing thing is that the Olympics organisers ever considered this. Remember, also, that your average citizen considers the Turner Prize the opportunity for a good laugh. What were they thinking of?
NB: I ought to explain that I live with an ex-bell ringer and therefore know a lot more about it than your average LJ contributor.
You've seen the logo they came up with right?
*sigh*
I was rooting for Paris.
That's not a work, that's a suggestion. I could write "everybody in the country paint their toenails pink on Friday," post it to the Olympic committee and call myself an artist, but I can hear the ghost of Marcel Duchamp telling me I go too far.
There are conceptual artists whose work I admire (Gilbert and George, anyone) but this twit isn't one of them.
Personally, I think campaigning for Olympic hosting is something that should be done to enemy nations. It's politer than starting a war but almost as nasty.