The artist Mark McGowan dressed up in british army camoflague fatigues, with commando boots wearing a red beret, he then lay down in New Street, in Birmingham City Centre, curled up in a ball for one week. The performance was called Dead Soldier 2006 and was neither anti-war or pro-military, put an artistic comment on current times.
OCEAN WAVE II 2003/4
On December 28th 2003 Mark set out from Peckham
in South East London and attempted to sail 400 miles to Glasgow in Scotland in a shopping trolley, along the way he collected gifts from english people intending to hand them out to
the people of Scotland as a reconciliation for the William Wallace thing. He failed in his attempt after 17 days and 65 miles, due to bad weather conditions and poor equipment.
