According to Yoko Ono's small army of lawyers, she emphatically did not eat corgi meatballs with the performance artist Mark McGowan, as reported here and across the web last month. McGowan engaged in the PETA-approved stunt to protest the Royal family's alleged cruelty to animals. Corgis are the Queen's favourite breed of dog.
I must admit that I am disappointed that Yoko didn't partake in the political stunt. To make matters worse, according to her lawyers the allegation that she was involved was "highly defamatory", "offensive" and "extremely distressing to her". When I heard the news that Yoko had participated in McGowan's latest political intervention, her credibility as an agent of social change shot way as far as I was concerned. Now that I know this is not the case, she is once again irrelevant in my eyes, or, in her own words, little more than "the wife of an ex-Beatle."
So if Yoko isn't eating Corgis what is she actually up to? A brief news search will find that she has recently broken the silence over John Lennon's last words before his murder. (Yoko: "Shall we go and have dinner before we go home?" John: "No, let’s go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep.") She also admitted in the same interview that she almost aborted their son Sean, but was convinced otherwise by John.
Posted by Rob Maguire on June 26, 2007 in
A tuxedo clad Mark McGowan ate a corgi yesterday in protest of the British Royal Family's treatment of animals. The controversial performance artist and vegetarian ingested meatballs made from a corgi—the Queen's favourite breed of dog—live on the radio, sharing his meal with Yoko Ono.
This latest stunt by McGowan was meant to draw attention to Prince Philip, who the artist slammed for "shooting a fox earlier this year, letting it struggle for life for five minutes and then beating it to death with a stick."
The corgi from which McGowan's meatballs originated died on a corgi breeding farm. Perhaps McGowan should have enlisted the Prince's hunting skills, as the meat looked like it could have used a bit of tenderizing.
Posted by Rob Maguire on May 30, 2007 in
If you spotted George Bush crawling through the streets of Manhattan, would you kick him in the ass? That is precisely what British performance artist Mark McGowan is inviting you to do as he wanders through New York City on his hands and knees for 72 hours while disguised as the American commander-in-chief.
Sporting a "kick my ass" sign on his posterior, McGowan says he is “offering the people of America, New York and visitors a service... a kind of therapeutic engagement. Hopefully people will be able to come and kick me as hard as they like, and gain some comfort in the fact that they can say I kicked George in the ass. On a more serious note this is a protest against George Bush and his policies and i am expecting injuries, i just hope not to severe."
The butt-numbing journey will begin at the Scope Art Fair on Thursday, February 27. For more info, visit MarkMcGowan.org.
Posted by Rob Maguire on February 19, 2007 in
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