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14/12/2004

Artist eats fox II

The Fitting Shop, London

Controversially but due to unprecedented demands and for Christmas, Mark McGowan is to repeat his extra ordinary performance of eating a fox. The performance is to start at 7.30pm on Wednesday 15th December 2004, in The Fitting Shop, Trinty Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, London E14, and the fox is to be served along with potatoes and brussel sprouts.

ARTIST EATS FOX II is part of a group show called Advent.

The reaction to the first event has received a mixed reception and some threatening as well as supportive emails have been sent to McGowan.

McGowan says
'i have been commenting on societies misplaced priorities, I think that some people have failed to see my point, I am not for or against fox hunting, in fact I am incredulous at the thought that so many people support fox hunting and so many people are against fox hunting up to a million on each side have marched this year, when we have so many people suffering through out the world with hardly anyone bothering to get emotional. I made a reference to the crackheads who live on my estate and why no one marches for them instead of the foxes and people said that they had a choice while the fox never. Little do they know that crackheads suffer from the disease of addiction and that they are likely to die or kill and rob without help or treatment for their illness. We live in a society where the crackhead who sits under the cashpoint machine is reduced to an inaminate object, sculpture while unemotive people withdraw money for a night out on pizza and picturehouse.'

ARTIST EATS FOX II Wednesday 15th December 2004, 7.30pm

For more info and images contact: Mark McGowan 07956084780

Advent, The Fitting Shop, Trinty Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, London E14

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