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For other uses, see Mark McGowan (disambiguation). Mark McGowan is a UK-based performance artist currently working at the Camberwell College of Arts, who has entered the news a number of times for his unconventional approach to public protest and demonstration. He grew up in Peckham, on the North Peckham Estate [1], and has a degree in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art, and an MA from Goldsmiths College [2]. Mark McGowan can also refer to: Mark McGowan (Australian politician), Member for Rockingham Mark G. McGowan, Canadian historian Category: ...
Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ...
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McGowan has made several notable stunts and self declared "protests" including, - Sitting in a bathtub full of baked beans with chips up his nose and sausages around his head, claiming to be the defender of the full English breakfast
- Cooking and eating a fox to highlight the plight of "crackheads".
- Laying prone in New Street, Birmingham (a pedestrianised area) dressed as a solider.
- Crawling the streets of Manhattan dressed up as and wearing a mask of US President George W. Bush and a "Kick My Ass" sign on his back
- Eating chunks of a Corgi dog in protest against Prince Philip for hunting foxes.
- Additionally he also publicizes other 'protests' which appear to have been impossible or unlikely for him to have undertaken. These include dragging a full sized London bus with his toe, and rolling a peanut from London's Goldsmiths College to 10 Downing Street using only his nose.
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Vandalism accusation In April 2005 McGowan once more gained publicity after being accused of 'keying' cars in a number of cities, a practice involving the scratching of cars using a key. This attracted the attention of the police, though McGowan defended his actions in a television interview on Channel 4 News by stating that his actions had become "compulsive-obsessive" and that "I [McGowan] suppose it's like a social experiment testing why people do it." Keying is a form of vandalism in which the sharp end of a key is scraped across the paint of a valuable object, usually a car. ...
The Channel 4 News logo after the headline stab. ...
Water wastage He was back in the news in July 2005 for his installation "The Running Tap", where he left the water running in the backroom kitchen of a London gallery to protest leakage problems with London's private water company, Thames Water. His installation wasted 9,200 gallons of water a day, and if left on for a full year as he intended, would have wasted 3.9 million gallons of water and cost £11,400 ($23,320). It was turned off several times by protesters of the protest. McGowan turned the tap off for good on 29 July following threats of legal action from the water company. Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ...
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Burning effigy During the Celebrity Big Brother 2007 (UK) incident where Jade Goody was shown making racist comments, and bullying of a 'house mate' Shilpa Shetty, McGowan publicised an event in support of Goody. On his website he claimed that an effigy of Shilpa would be burned by supporters outside Bermondsey tube station. McGowan later deleted these statements and announced on his site that the protest had been cancelled, probably due to the website being cited by internet forums. Celebrity Big Brother 2007 was the fifth series of the United Kingdom reality television series Celebrity Big Brother, a spin-off of Big Brother. ...
Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody [2] (born June 5, 1981) is a British reality television celebrity, who became famous after appearing on the Channel 4 TV show Big Brother in 2002. ...
Shilpa Shetty (Tulu: ಶಿಲà³à²ª ಶೆಟà³à²Ÿà²¿) (born 8 June 1975 in Tamil Nadu, India) is a four-time Filmfare Award-nominated Indian film actress and model. ...
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