dbo:abstract
- Mark McGowan (born 9 June 1964) is a British street artist, performance artist, film maker and prominent public protester who has gone by the artist name Chunky Mark and more recently The Artist Taxi Driver. By profession, McGowan is a London taxi driver and occasional University speaker and arts tutor. McGowan is known internationally for his performance art including shock art, street art and installation art, and as a stuntman, internet personality, video blogger, social commentator, social critic, satirist, political activist, peace activist, and an anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-capitalist anti-monarchist and anti-power elite protester. Under the artist name "Chunky Mark", McGowan entered the mainstream news in the early 2000s for his unconventional, satirical, sometimes comedic and/or ironic, and often absurd approach to public protest and demonstration. Chunky Mark conducted hundreds of performances in the UK and dozens around the world, stirring up some international attention, further debate on what "art really is", controversy; and both support and mockery alike from intellectuals, the art world, private corporations, the police, the military, the tabloids and the public. Often McGowan has not applied for police permission beforehand. McGowan abandoned the Chunky Mark persona in late 2010 and fully adopted the "Artist Taxi Driver" persona for his web blog on YouTube, where he films himself alone in his taxi between fares, often wearing dark sunglasses, and in which he rants passionately and emotionally about the news and issues of the day. The Artist Taxi Driver's official YouTube channel (still under the "ChunkyMark" name) by 2013 had thousands of videos made by McGowan, with almost 30,000 subscribers, and his most popular video viewed 220,000 times. (en)
- Mark McGowan, född 9 juni 1964, är en brittisk gatukonstnär och performancekonstnär, bland annat känd för sina publika framträdanden som ofta tar sig uttryck i form av protester. Han har även framträtt under artistnamnen Chunky Mark och The Artist Taxi Driver. (sv)
- 麥高思(Mark McGowan，1970年-)，英國著名的，由於其行為藝術怪異出位，被部份人認為譁眾取寵。2007年2月，麥高思在美國的最大城市紐約中扮演該國總統乔治·沃克·布什，並任由路人踢他的臀部，以「治療美國人在喬治布殊統治下的不滿情緒」。 (zh)
dbp:training
- B.A. Degree in Fine Arts, at Camberwell College of Arts (en)
dbp:works
- The War Machine (en)
- Westmonster (en)
- Austerity Is A Scam, A Fraud, A Hoax (en)
- This Is Not a Recession, It's a Robbery (en)
rdfs:comment
- Mark McGowan, född 9 juni 1964, är en brittisk gatukonstnär och performancekonstnär, bland annat känd för sina publika framträdanden som ofta tar sig uttryck i form av protester. Han har även framträtt under artistnamnen Chunky Mark och The Artist Taxi Driver. (sv)
- 麥高思(Mark McGowan，1970年-)，英國著名的，由於其行為藝術怪異出位，被部份人認為譁眾取寵。2007年2月，麥高思在美國的最大城市紐約中扮演該國總統乔治·沃克·布什，並任由路人踢他的臀部，以「治療美國人在喬治布殊統治下的不滿情緒」。 (zh)
- Mark McGowan (born 9 June 1964) is a British street artist, performance artist, film maker and prominent public protester who has gone by the artist name Chunky Mark and more recently The Artist Taxi Driver. By profession, McGowan is a London taxi driver and occasional University speaker and arts tutor. McGowan is known internationally for his performance art including shock art, street art and installation art, and as a stuntman, internet personality, video blogger, social commentator, social critic, satirist, political activist, peace activist, and an anti-establishment, anti-war, anti-capitalist anti-monarchist and anti-power elite protester. (en)
rdfs:label
- Mark McGowan (performance artist) (en)
- Mark McGowan (sv)
- 麥高思 (zh)