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ARE ALL SPANISH RACISTS?

Mark McGowan | 13.03.2008 16:40 | Anti-racism | World

In an extraordinary art performance the famous and controversial London artist Mark McGowan is to stand dressed as a MONKEY with a large sign around his neck, asking in english, ARE ALL SPANISH RACISTS?. The event is to start on Friday 28th March 2008 at 10am and is to last for an incredible 24 hours a day for 7 days, it will take place in Plaza del Triunfo, outside the Seville Cathedral, Seville, in Spain.



In an extraordinary art performance the famous and controversial London artist Mark McGowan is to stand dressed as a MONKEY with a large sign around his neck, asking in english, ARE ALL SPANISH RACISTS?. The event is to start on Friday 28th March 2008 at 10am and is to last for an incredible 24 hours a day for 7 days, it will take place in Plaza del Triunfo, outside the Seville Cathedral, Seville, in Spain.

The project is in response to numerous high profile sporting occassions, including the recent Lewis Hamilton incident in Barcelona and when large sections of the Madrid crowd directed monkey chants at Shaun Wright Phillips and Ashley Cole, when England played Spain. Also the Barcelona manager Frank Rikyard had to beg one of his players Samuel Eto into staying on the pitch after racists abuse in Zaragoza.

McGowan says, 'Obviously this is a provocative stunt, but i have been asked to do a piece of art work in Spain by the gallery Suffix in Seville and i wanted to tackle this question and go out onto the streets of Seville and ask them are they racists. This is not an attempt to get an answer but to the Spanish people, how can you tollerate this. I will be there every day for a week, i hope my project raises some debate.

Previously McGowan has pushed a peanut along the road with his nose for 7 miles, sat in a bath of beans with two chips up his nose and 48 sausages tied to his head for two weeks and he also attempted to leave a tap running for one year in an art gallery but it was turned off after a month, he also ate a small corgi dog.

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En una extraordinaria performance, el controvertido artista Londinense Mark McGowan se disfrazará de MONO y, alrededor de su cuello, colgará una gran señal que incluirá una pregunta en Inglés, "ARE ALL SPANISH RACIST?" El evento comenzará el Viernes 28 de Marzo del 2008 a las 10:00 horas y durara 7 días, un t importancia, incluyendo incidentes recientes como el dirigido a Lewis Hamilton en Barcelona o el protagonizado por la grada del Real Madrid que dirigió cánticos de mono a Shaun Wright Phillips y Ashley Cole, ambos jugadores de color. También el entrenador del Barcelona Frank Rikyard tuvo que suplicarle a Samuel Eto'o que permaneciera sobre el campo del Real Zaragoza después de que el jugador recibiera abusos racistas.

McGowan comenta, " Obviamente esto es una pose provocadora para llamar la atención pero se me a pedido hacer una obra artística en España para la galería Suffix de Sevilla y quería exponer esta cuestión y salir a las calles de Sevilla para preguntar ¿sois racistas?. Esto no es un intento de recibir una respuesta, es mas una manera de preguntar a los Españoles ¿cómo pueden tolerar esto? Estaré ahí dúrate una semana y espero que mi proyecto incite al debate".

Previamente el artista McGowan había empujado una nuez con su nariz a lo largo de una carretera de 7 Millas, el equivalente a 11 Kms. En otra ocasión permaneció sentado en una bañera llena de judías cocidas con tomate, dos patatas metidas en la nariz y 48 salchichas atadas a su cabeza durante 2 semanas. Además intento dejar un grifo de agua corriendo en una galería durante un año, pero el grifo fue cerrado pasado un mes. También, en otra ocasión, se comió a un pequeño corgi

Mark McGowan
- e-mail: Chunkymark1974@yahoo.com
- Homepage: http://www.markmcgowan.org

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  1. MacGowan is the racist — Antifascist
  2. Why not — skunk
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