Artist to EAT a corgi...
 

This is wrong...

[url=http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=797912007]artist to eat corgi[/url]

[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18937826/?GT1=9951]another article with him eating[/url]

EDIT: the dog apparently died of natural causes, but still...can't you let it rest in peace!?

That is awful.:sad: :sick: I had to look because I really thought I read it wrong:frustrated:

Maybe I've lost my artist's perspective, but I don't see how this is art.

who would give their dog to this guy to eat? ugh!

[QUOTE]The dog died of natural causes at a corgi breeder and was prepared and cooked by others for McGowan.[/QUOTE] Well it is gross but it wasn't cruel. I think stomping on a suffering fox is much worse and his stunt did bring it to my attention via this post.:shrug:

This guy is pretty messed up. Other "performance art installations" he's had:
# 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
# rolling a peanut on the ground with his nose from London's Goldsmiths College to 10 Downing Street
#Somersault 70 miles
# 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 $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.
#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."
#ate a swan in a protest against the monarchy, the rich and the upper classes, outside the Guy Hilton Gallery in East London.

#On December 28th 2003 Mark set out from Peckham
in South East London and attempted to sail 400 miles to Glasgow in Scotland in a shopping trolley, along the way he collected gifts from english people intending to hand them out to
the people of Scotland as a reconciliation for the William Wallace thing. He failed in his attempt after 17 days and 65 miles, due to bad weather conditions and poor equipment.
#Mark nailed his feet to the gallery wall protesting against leaves.


#Mark walked backwards for 11miles with a 27lb turkey on top of his head shouting at fat people along the way through a homemade loud hailer, it was a piece about the obesity pandemic.

etc etc
You can even see the video of him eating the corgi on his website.

yay, I'm eating spaghetti, maybe I can get an artist grant! :rolleyes: *sarcasm*

Although I think this man is a bit whacko,it's way past time the "royal"family stops the horrific tradition of the fox-hunt,it's beyond my comprehension how anyone can enjoy persuing a little animal until he collapses,only to be attacked by dogs and humans.
Shame on the"royal"family and their outdated traditions:evil:

[QUOTE=chico2;433090]
Shame on the"royal"family and their outdated traditions:evil:[/QUOTE]

I second that Chico2 :thumbs up

I totally agree that they are beyond outdated traditions, but the delivery could have been different, because in my eyes, they just don't connect enough.

I find most performance artists are self-rightous jackasses who do dreck in the name of art. My favourite are the supporters who go, "You just don't get it!" Oh I get it...you're a tool!

(Anyone remember the guy who urinated on the cross, or the guy who put his poo on a pedastal?? Man, was I tired of that guy's crap...)

Me thinks a midwife dropped this artist on his head when he was born.

He does not seem altogether as they say but he did as Chico said make a point about the fox hunt - which I thought was supposed to be banned now. (Or is the Royal Family exempt????) It is most bizarre however!!!

What an assinine stunt. Without the media attention and explanation of his "rationale" there would be no connection between eating a Corgi and Prince Phillip's role in fox hunting/ the monarchy's support of the RSPCA.

Causing an indignity to the body of a deceased animal to protest cruelty to another is exploitation not art.