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Performance artist eats fox in hunting protest
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-12-03 14:15 Forget the soiled bedsheets
and pickled animals, British art has taken another outrageous turn in an example
of the unspeakable swallowing the uneatable.
Mark McGowan pushes a peanut along the road to
Tony Blair's Downing street home with his nose in a political protest.
[yahoo] | Performance artist Mark McGowan, who
counts among his feats pushing a peanut along the road to Tony Blair's Downing
street home with his nose, has eaten a fox, in protest at the public fixation
with a government ban on fox hunting.
He described the roast fox, which he ate in public, as quite tasty, although
he admitted to nearly vomiting at times.
"It was a bit like rack of lamb," he told Reuters on Wednesday. "The trouble
was the retching noises from the other people in the room."
Too much attention is paid to fox hunting, he believes. "One million people
marched against fox hunting and another million marched for it. The housing
estate where I live is full of crack-heads but no one marches to help them," he
said.
"Everyone gets really worked up about a furry animal, but no one cares about
each other."
McGowan plans to repeat the performance at an exhibition in London's
Docklands on Dec.15.
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