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From: chunkymark1964@YAHOO.COM Subject: [LIVEART] DEAD SOLDIER EXHIBITION STOPPED Date: November 15, 2006 12:48:49 PM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK the artist mark mcgowan was ordered to stop his dead soldier performance in Birmingham New Street today. the artist was to lie down in british army fatigues, commando boots and a red beret for 10 hours a day for one week, but this morning was told by police that he wouldnt be allowed to continue the event due to safety reasons. an article appearred in today's sun newspaper condemning the performance http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006530141,00.html and several radio stations continued along that theme. mcgowan says, ' i know its provocative lying down pretending to be dead in a busy street like Birmingham New Street, but that's my point its supposed to be. there is no difference between a war artist who paints the horrors of war and what i am doing. http://markmcgowan.org day one...... laid down for 6 hours today dressed as a soldier in Birmingham, New Street, it rained and i got soaking wet. it was a very emotional experience, one person kicked me, lots of people reacted, generally it was quite positive. will be back tomorrow morning at 10am. also the police came along. day two..... performance stopped The artist Mark McGowan is to dress up in british army camoflague fatigues, with commando boots and a red beret on and lie down in New Street,( junction of Needless Alley), in Birmingham City Centre, curled up in a ball for one week. The performance is called Dead Soldier 2006 and is neither anti-war or pro-military, put an artistic comment on current times. The project starts on Tuesday 14th November 2006 at 10am and lasts until 20th November 2006. The project is commissioned by the International Project Space, which is part of the University UCE of Birmingham and is funded by the Arts Council. for more info International Project Space Andrew Hunt, Curator 07886002310 Bournville Centre for Visual Arts Birmingham Institute of Art and Design University of Central England www.internationalprojectspace.org From: chunkymark1964@YAHOO.COM Subject: [LIVEART] ARTIST TO TIE ARM TO LAMPOST FOR TWO WEEKS Date: November 29, 2006 7:09:11 PM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK THE WITHERED ARM , for peace 2006. In an extra ordinary art event artist Mark McGowan is to stay with his arm raised above his head and gaffer taped to a lampost outside an art gallery in Brick Lane East London as an act, to ask for peace through out the world for Christmas. The performance is to last two weeks, it starts on Sunday 10th December and finishes on Boxing Day 26th December 2006. Two wooden splints are to be placed on McGowan's right arm and will be gaffer taped. Strapping will be put around his chest, forcing his arm to stay erect and vertical. A hook on the splints will then feed into an eye placed onto the lampost. McGowan will sit at the foot of the lampost, for 24 hours a day every day of the week for two weeks. Obviously toilet breaks will be allowed, but his arm will not be lowered. The blood will rush from his arm causing it to wither, his muscles will regress and after two weeks serious problems may have occurred. McGowan says, 'i just want the world to stop fighting, i just want them to stop killing each other.' for more info 07944533010 From: chunkymark1964@YAHOO.COM Subject: [LIVEART] artist still tied to lampost after 5 days Date: December 14, 2006 5:59:55 PM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2006/12/artist_mark_mcgowan_ties_himse.php Last Sunday artist Mark McGowan tied his arm to a lampost, outside an Art Gallery in Brick Lane East London as a protest for peace at Christmas. He said he is going to stay there until Boxing Day. The artist said 'I dont think that we can make a difference but we can offer a resistance to all the troubles that are going on in the world, i dont think that we as a country are making matters any better and so this is my small contribution.' for more info 07955433010 http://www.thebricklanegallery.com/ http://markmcgowan.org/ From: chunkymark1964@YAHOO.COM Subject: [LIVEART] I'M ON THE TELLY ON CHRISTMAS DAY Date: December 22, 2006 11:53:54 AM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Happy Christmas. just to let you know i am on Telly on Christmas Day ITV from 9.25am until 10.30am the programme is called Cathedral and its when i crawled on my hands and knees from London to Canterbury with a rose between my teeth, 18 boxes of chocolates tied around my wrists and ankles and a big sign on my back saying 'Could You Love Me'. so have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year too Mark McGowan From: chunkymark1964@YAHOO.COM Subject: [LIVEART] ARTIST TO EAT A SWAN Date: January 3, 2007 4:18:19 PM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 'ARTIST TO EAT A SWAN 2007'......press release In an extra ordinary art performance, controversial artist Mark McGowan is to eat a swan, in what he calls a protest against royalty,the rich and the upper class. Only the Queen is allowed to eat a swan and anyone caught eating one is liable for arrest and prosecution. McGowan from Peckham, South East London comes from a working class background and see's the eating of a swan a symbol of the upper class and the breaking of a taboo. A man was recently given two months prison for eating a swan because he was hungry. The performance is to take place at the Guy Hilton Gallery, 35 Fournier Street on Saturday 13th January 2007 at 5pm. McGowan says, "This country has one set of laws for royalty, the rich and the upper classes and another set for the homeless, the poor and the working class. With this art performance/protest i want to make a statement, just because you are the Queen of England, it doesn't give you the right to abide by different laws. They do not pay tax the royals, while the rich and the upper classes avoid it at all costs. They break laws, they start wars and they kill people. Basically they do as they like and get away with it. Whats the point of the royal family anyway? Surely it is them that are keeping the class structure going, this great divide. The sooner they are gone the better. I know that by eating a swan i might get arrested, but i want to make a stand, for the poor, the down trodden and the working class. Even though i do not believe that i can make a difference with this protest, i can offer a resistance." Saturday 13th January 2007 5pm at The Guy Hilton Gallery 35 Fournier Street London E1 for more info call Guy Hilton 07958595033 Mark McGowan 07944533010 Artist To Eat A Swan 2007 is part of ....so sad which is a group exhibition based around the theme of sadness. press release February 2007 From: chunkymark1964@YAHOO.COM Subject: [LIVEART] PICCADILLY LINE JULY 7TH TUBE BOMB RE-ENACTMENT Date: January 29, 2007 9:52:00 PM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK PICCADILLY LINE JULY 7TH TUBE BOMB RE-ENACTMENT An East London art gallery is to put on a controversial exhibition, the Piccadilly Line July 7th tube bomb re-enactment. The show is being produced by the artist Mark McGowan and the notorious Aaron Barschak, the comedy terrorist, who will be collaborating for the very first time. Gallery visitors and members of the public will be invited into the tube train in a tunnel, gallery in a converted toilet space. The doors will be locked,(for 1 hour), the lights switched off and the nightmare will begin. McGowan says, "Hopefully this will be a chance for Londoners to come to terms with what happened that day and what might happen in the future. I think it will be a cross between art, theatre and a ghost train fun fair ride". Guy Hilton the gallery owner said, "Its really exciting getting Aaron Barschak and Mark McGowan to work together on this project, we are all looking forward to it. They are going to paint all the walls, even a tunnel, also we've a smoke machine and some tube train seats. Obviously this is a very serious project/topic and I know both Aaron and Mark will deal with it in a thoughful, yet provocative manner." for more info and images mark mcgowan 07944533010 guy hilton 07958595033 PICCADILLY LINE JULY 7TH TUBE BOMB RE-ENACTMENT The Guy Hilton Gallery, 35 Fournier Street, London, E1 Saturday 10th February 2007 5pm From: chunkymark1964@YAHOO.COM Subject: [LIVEART] press release... KICK GEORGE BUSH'S ASS AT THE LINCOLN CENTER NEW YORK. Date: February 16, 2007 9:09:57 PM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK BRITISH ARTIST MARK MCGOWAN IS GOING TO NEW YORK more info and image http://markmcgowan.org/ london 00447944533010 New York 212 268 1522 ARTIST TO CRAWL NON STOP FOR 72 HOURS ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES AROUND NEW YORK DRESSED AS GEORGE BUSH INVITING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO KICK GEORGE BUSHS ASS. press release....february 2007 In an extra ordinary art performance, controversial London artist Mark McGowan is to dress up as the President George Bush and crawl on his hands and knees for an incredible non stop 72 hours, he will be covering an amazing 36 miles on the streets of New York, McGowan will have a sign on his posterior saying KICK MY ASS, he will be inviting members of the public, New Yorkers and allcomers to kick the sign. The event will start at the main entrance to the Scope Arrt Fair The Tent at Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, Corner of 62 Street and 10th Avenue on Thursday 22nd Febuary 2007 at 3pm and circumnavigate New York, McGowan will be wearing knee pads and a cushion will be placed inside his pants to cope with the amount of pain expected from the continual kicking. McGowan says, 'what i am doing is offering the people of America, New York and visitors a service, think of it as a kind of theraputic engagement. Hopefully people will be able to come and kick me (the President, George Bush) as hard as they like and gain some comfort in the fact that they can say i kicked George in the ass. On a more serious note this is a protest against George Bush and his policies and i am expecting injuries, i just hope not too severe.' The performance is called KICK GEORGE BUSH'S ASS and has been commisioned by Charlie Smith. for more info contact London 07944533010 New York 212 268 1522 From: dan@ARTISTSANDMAKERS.COM Subject: Re: [LIVEART] press release... KICK MARK McGOWAN's ARSE ON WORTHING PROM. Date: February 16, 2007 11:42:04 PM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK ARTIST TO CRAWL NON STOP FOR 72 MINUTES ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES AROUND WORTHING DRESSED AS MARK McGOWAN INVITING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO KICK MARK McGOWAN’s ARSE. press release....February 2007((In an extraordinary art performance, controversial Worthing artist Dan Thompson is to dress up as the artist Mark McGowan and crawl on his hands and knees for an incredible non stop 72 minutes. He will be covering an amazing mile or so on Worthing promenade. Thompson will have a sign on his posterior saying KICK MY BOTTOM and will be inviting members of the public, people from nearby Brighton and all comers to kick the sign (he did consider a sign saying KICK MY ASS but realised the RSPCA would not be happy, and thought KICK MY ARSE a little too strong for the South Coast). The event may start at the main entrance to the Worthing Pier on Thursday 22nd February 2007 at 3pm and move west along the prom. Thompson will be wearing knee pads and a cushion will be placed inside his trousers to cope with the amount of pain expected from the continual kicking, mainly from many other live artists expected to make a special trip to Worthing.( Thompson says 'what I am doing is offering the people of Worthing and visitors a service, think of it as a kind of therapeutic engagement. Hopefully people will be able to come and kick as hard as they like and gain some comfort in the fact that they can say I kicked that awful Mark McGowan, from the Richard & Judy show, in the bottom. On a more serious note this is a protest against Mark McGowan and his poor art, feeble band-wagon-jumping, third rate headline-grabbing stunts and I am expecting injuries, probably a bit of back ache and maybe stiff knees. It’s quite chilly on Worthing prom in February.' More at www.artistsandmakers.com From: chunkymark1964@YAHOO.COM Subject: [LIVEART] press release..British artist anti-Bush stunt provokes violent reaction in America Date: February 26, 2007 12:35:08 PM GMT+01:00 To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To: LIVEART@JISCMAIL.AC.UK reuters video http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=12565 THE BRITISH artist Mark McGowan has been forced to curtail his latest stunt after it inspired a violent reaction in New York. He had planned to spend three days crawling the streets dressed in a grey suit and a latex George Bush mask, with a sign reading "Kick My Ass" affixed to his backside, but was verbally attacked less than three hours into the performance by angry supporters of the president. It started so promisingly, surrounded by television crews from all the major American news organisations. McGowan has a proven talent for arousing controversy, most recently by eating a swan in protest against the monarchy, and his presence drew welcome attention to the Scope Art Fair. "People of America," he told reporters, "I am going to crawl on my hands and knees non-stop for 72 hours, offering you all the opportunity to kick me, George Bush, in the ass. I, George, deserves it, for his irresponsible global and international policies which are killing people and destroying this planet. Let the ass-kicking begin." With that, he pulled the mask down over his face, adjusted his knee pads, and crawled out into the pouring rain. It was a filthy day, but he remained cheerful. "The weather conditions are against me but I love that part of it," he said, "If it continues to rain like this I'll just keep going. People live in worse conditions than this. They used to send me out cross-country running when I was a kid at school. I didn't want to go out then either." McGowan has a track record for acts of endurance, having once rolled a peanut across London from Camberwell Art College to 10 Downing Street, to draw attention to student debt, but this is not the first time he has gone home early. In 2004 he tried to travel from London to Glasgow in a shopping trolley, but gave up 17 days and 65 miles later. Last year he lay motionless on the streets of Birmingham wearing an army uniform for an artwork called Dead Soldier, but withdrew when he was threatened with violence. "You've got to be careful with alcoholics and children, because they're the ones that'll get you every time," he observed. The first New Yorkers he encountered were bemused, and for several blocks the performance suffered from a lack of willing participants. A grinning security guard posed with his foot against McGowan's backside for a photo opportunity, but despite the thick padding in his trousers, people were reluctant to kick him hard. Even here, in a famously liberal quarter of a city with little love for George Bush, no-one was keen to boot the president in the seat of his pants. Retired professor David Willis said "it looks like nonsense to me" but was eventually persuaded to swing his right foot, confessing afterwards that "kicking his ass felt so good". Student Wilmer Cantos gave him a gentle prod, and immediately regretted it. He said: "I felt kinda bad, because he's the leader of our nation. I think he does deserve it though, because he does a really bad job with our country." Texan Cecilia Garza admitted disliking her former governor, but only gave him a token tap on the rear. "Kicking the man in the pants I felt bad because I knew it was an actor," she said, "but symbolically it felt somewhat OK. I poked him with my umbrella as well." In Times Square, three burly men with handlebar moustaches were less sympathetic, calling McGowan a "goddamn liberal" and threatening to kick him "in the jaw" adding, "you'd have terrorists up your ass if it wasn't for George Bush." Shortly afterwards, he decided to head back to the art fair, to remain there for the duration. "I thought I could cope with it, but to be really truthful, I got scared," he said later. "I thought about going back on the streets but it could actually get physical. I spoke to my mum on the phone and she said, It's not worth it.' I don't mind it being a failure. I don't mind people saying, What a lame attempt,' because in the end it's my safety. The security guard said to me, You're lucky you're in New York. You couldn't do this in many other states in America because you'd get killed. They'd come out and shoot you.'" |
