Peepers Part II
dal 21/7/2001 al 9/9/2001
Segnalato da
21/7/2001
Peepers Part II
Clapham Art Gallery, London
Mark McGowan is renowned in London for his witty and sometimes bizarre performance work. He has been featured in Art Monthly, Evening Standard, South London Press and been covered by BBC and ITV television and BBC Radio London Live. (...) Mark will be performing four pieces at Clapham Art Gallery during the summer on four monthly Sunday afternoons. Entitled 'Peepers' and viewed through the window of Clapham Art Gallery, the series is an invitation to the voyeuristic to play voyeur.
Mark McGowan is renowned in London for his witty and sometimes bizarre
performance work. He has been featured in Art Monthly, Evening Standard, South
London Press and been covered by BBC and ITV television and BBC Radio London
Live. Previous performances include 'Doing Things the Hard Way', which involved
crawling from Peckham to Camberwell on his hands and knees with a stereo
strapped to his back playing Frank Sinatra whilst singing 'I Did it My Way'.
Then there was 'Couch', where the artist sat for a week on a sofa on top of a
constructed 16ft high white cube shouting at a television, and 'Copshop', where
he took over Camberwell police station with an interactive show of painting,
sculpture, video and installation.
Mark will be performing four pieces at Clapham Art Gallery during the summer on
four monthly Sunday afternoons. Entitled 'Peepers' and viewed through the window
of Clapham Art Gallery, the series is an invitation to the voyeuristic to play
voyeur. The first will feature Mark in bed; the second consists of the artist
dressed as a snorkler singing the whole of 'Evita'. The third piece will be 'a
violent argument between a man and a man dressed as a woman' in a sitting room
setting and the final performance will feature a blindfolded nuclear family
stumbling aimlessly around the space. With an added element of the unexpected
and unplanned, anything could happen. The location of Venn Street in Clapham
Common is perfect. Just off the main high street near Clapham Common tube and
sited next to a bustling French restaurant with outside terrace and opposite a
cinema, the performance will attract the attention of passers by and Sunday
afternoon bar and cinema goers alike.
Clapham Art Gallery is delighted to work with Mark and present him with the
opportunity to perform from an established commercial art space.
'Eva' - A snorkler, lime green flippers et al, sings the entire Evita musical.
Sunday July 22nd 5-6.45pm
'Violent Couch' - A couch, a pouf and a tv. A violent argument between a man and
a man dressed as a woman.
Sunday August 19th 5-6pm
'Blind' - A family, a husband, his wife, their son and their daughter are
blindfolded and stumble aimlessly around sometimes touching, sometimes
comforting, sometimes pushing.
Sunday September 9th 5-6pm
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 1-9pm Sun 1-5pm
CLAPHAM ART GALLERY
61 Venn Street
London SW4 0BD
Tel/Fax: 020 7720 0955