But is it art?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4454485.stm

"Artist" makes film of himself keying people's cars. He couldn't be more of
a cheeky git if he offered AndyW 3k for his bike.

 

flash says...

"Mr McGowan, who has described himself as "the British alternative to
David Blaine" nailed his feet to an art gallery last year - in protest
against leaves"

Wha?, the man is utterly barking.

 

Indeed, I was thinking of offering him 2.9k myself.

 

They should feel glad they have been involved in a creative process.

I will glad invite him to be involved in a creative process. The
rearranging of the shape of his face and limbs. I shall video the event
and sell it as art. That should please him. It will all be in the name
of art.

 

Pass him over here when you've done. I've a floor I might wipe with
him ;-

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3574586.stm

has a summary of some of his other antics - he's a fuckwit.

 

Bear says...

Not sure if he makes much money, but anybody who straps a dead turkey to
their head and walks backwards round London deserves at least some
funding.

http://www.ukfineart.co.uk/MarkMcGowan/McGowan2.html

 

I really, seriously doubt it. He's the same **** who rolled a peanut
across London a couple of years back and offered it as payment to
10.Downing Street to pay off his student debt.

 

Funding as far as the nearest nut-house, perhaps.

Or are you actually being serious? I really hope not.


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I do like McGowan3.html:

"NO SKY"

"Marched through the streets of Camberwell and Peckham with a solo
trumpet player playing a sad lament and holding ten foot high bamboo
sticks with little cocktail umbrellas on top.

Petitioned Soutthwark Council at the town hall for 'no sky' on the
grounds that it was too big."

he is a total fuckwit.

 

Ace says...

Not really no. He pops up fairly regularly in the London press doing
dafter and dafter stunts. I feel he may have overstepped the mark a tad
with his latest stunt...

 

Jesus:
'You Turkey is an extra ordinary art performance by Mark McGowan. It is in
response to the obesity pandemic and is pacifically directed towards fat
people.'

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Excellent.

"Hey fellah, you're a turkey"

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Catman

'You ****' is an extraordinary art performance by Nigel Eaton. It is in
response to the illiteracy pandemic, and is specifically aimed towards
stupid people.


"You! Yes, you! McGowan! You're a ****!"

A little derivative, possibly. But I like it.

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Yep, works for me, too.
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"It's a get-out-of-jail-free card".

 

Nidge wrote

The only challenge this geezer needs is a bit of originality. The idea
of walking round backwards with something on yerred has been done to
death over the years.


Kinnel, our very own home grown Genesis P Orridge was the man who was on
the ball over this one when he got an Arts Council Grant in the 60's and
took it to a much wider audience and walked round East Anglia with a
plank on his head, sometimes backwards and sometimes forwards.


Seems to me that matey is what WUN would call derivative and not very
good at it at that and thus worthy of no further attention from the
chattering classes.

 

This is Goldsmiths after all. They are a renowned supplier of loons. I
used to pass the place often enough.

 

Convenient of him to provide photographic evidence
of his vandalism. Pretty sure each "keying" pattern
is relatively unique, so if they have photographic
evidence it shouldn't be too hard to match things
up. I'm developing quite the loathing of vandals.

 

Too much.

I propose each of his victins is provided a sharpened key, and he's put
on a kebab meat style turntable.

Call it art.