TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY ARTIST MARK ALLEN PLAYS DEAD INSIDE WALMART TO PROTEST BLACK FRIDAY WITH PERFORMANCE ART!!!
Groundbreaking Kansas City artist Mark Allen is taking his creative game to the next level with his latest protest performance art piece staged at a local Lee's Summit Walmart.
To wit . . .
TAKE A LOOK AT KANSAS CITY ARTIST MARK ALLEN PLAYING DEAD IN HIS LATEST PERFORMANCE ART PIECE THAT PROTESTS BLACK FRIDAY!!!
Mr. Allen starts his performance with a dedication "to all those who have lost their lives as a direct result of Black Friday" and it just gets better from that point . . .
To keep it legal . . . We blurred the faces of the people of Walmart but the raw photos are nice and they show the real level of concern that artist Mark Allen created with his work.
This is SERIOUSLY IMPORTANT KANSAS CITY ART WORK that combines social criticism with some heavy artistic themes concerning death, consumerism and public spectacle taken to its logical extent. Credit to Mark Allen for putting Kansas City at the forefront of the local protest movement against Black Friday spectacle.
We've followed Mark Allen's artsy adventures for a minute but this effort should really put his talents on the national map. Take a look at the video documenting the Kansas City area artsy adventure . . .
BODYBAG WALMART BLACK FRIDAY 2013
Now check the presser that provides even more explanation . . .
ARTIST PLAYS DEAD INSIDE WALMART TO PROTEST BLACK FRIDAY
"This performance is in honor of those who have lost their lives as a direct result of Black Friday." Mark Allen introduces himself to the camera inside a Walmart in Lee's Summit, Missouri before zipping himself inside a designer bodybag and remaining motionless on the floor. A few customers step around his body and look confused, questioning the purpose behind this spectacle.
An employee asks Kat Von Rich, the woman behind the camera, what it's all about. "It's performance art, he makes bodybags," she replies. "The non-performance is a visual protest against the deadly woes of vapid American consumerism. Since 2006, dozens of shoppers have been injured or even died as a direct result of Black Friday. Just this year ther were Black Friday-related shootings in Illinois and Tennessee, a man was stabbed at a Walmart over a parking space, and a shopper was shot carrying home their new TV. (source:www.blackfridaydeathcount.com)
The performances are a social experiment, creating a bizarre spectacle for audiences to experience. These impromptu displays critique the socioeconomic structure that we all participate in and also the authoritarian constructs that wish for us to conform to their sometimes deadly hyper-capitalistic rituals. The performances are also targeted at art institution, critiquing their political and monetary obligations.
The artist has been doing these non-performances for over a year. He has been arrested at Art Basel Miami beach last December for his 17-minute-long performance inside the multi-billion-dollar art convention. He has also performed illicitly at the Tate Modern in London, Harrond's department store, the Venice Bienale in Italy, and Times Square in New York City. He will continue his performances around Kansas City throughout the year. The previous performances can be viewed at www.markallenconcepts.com
Mark Allen is an artist from Kansas City who has just graduated from Pepperdine University in Malibue, California. He is currently a photography instructor at MyArts, a non-profit advocacy program for high-school artists, which he participated in as a youth. More of his performances, paintings, and photographs can be found at www.markallenconcepts.com.
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Nice work. The death count this year was just too much and it's time for the nation to move against this kind of dangerous sale strategy.
ReplyDeleteKC war on walmart? I thought we already won?
ReplyDeleteThrow a little more stubble on his face and he could pass for a hobo protesting being homeless.
ReplyDeleteHe should protest the African-American culture of death.
ReplyDeleteLie in the middle of the median down around 55th and Paseo for a few hours one Friday night. Bet he'd wind up putting that body bag to it's intended use.
Yeah, only white people put up with this kinda shit. Try this crap in the Blue Ridge Wal-Mart, he'd find out just how violent Black Friday can be.
ReplyDeleteOh for God's sakes....no doubt an NEA recipient too
ReplyDeleteCan't paint huh, Mark?
ReplyDeleteWe viewed with much interest your latest video submission, "The REAL point of the performance is the IRONY that in ten years I will be shopping at Walmart, trying to stretch my paycheck from the hardware store to provide for my scrawny, pasty wife and three kids who all smell like curdled milk and have that cheeto stained nose and mouth unique to lower stock white kids and my dreams of being the next Lady Gaga are just a distant memory", but, sadly, the performance will not qualify you as a finalist as you seem to have confused the word genius with MORON.
ReplyDeleteWe suggest that if you really want to make a statement on the next Black Friday, you lie motionless in a body bag inside the store by the DOORS just before they open.
-The Mac Arthur Genius Grant Judging Committee
Mark Allen... a poor mans cheap imitatiokn of a white Alonzo Washington.
ReplyDeleteMedia horehound
Malibue's Most Wanted.
ReplyDeletePlease come get this dorkenstein.
Oh for Christ's sake, learn to spell Malibu!!
ReplyDeleteWho the hell knew I was an artist? I do this shit in my bed every night!! Love how this clown put his name on this over sized duffle bag. I am pretty sure art is not laying on the floor, oh wait I just made art in the toilet..................
ReplyDeleteNo one gives a shit about this pr stunt.
ReplyDeleteWhat the guy pay you for this infomercial post anyway?
Pepperdine is now teaching first grade level art?
ReplyDeleteGo protest all the people killed in auto accidents every year, Mr. Allen. I suggest the middle lane of I-70 for your venue...
ReplyDeleteToo bad Wallmart didn't have this dipshit arrested and thrown in jail. Then he would have something to protest.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is that dude is employed by MyArts, which us supported by Jackson County Prosecutor's Office; Missouri Department of Public Safety; COMBAT; City of KCMO; Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, and; ARTSTech.
ReplyDeleteSo public agencies supported at least in part or in whole by sales tax dollars as well as foundations and organizations that exist due to corporate largesse, both of which are significant parts of the "authoritarian constructs that wish for us to conform to their sometimes deadly hyper-capitalistic rituals" that Mr. Allen wishes to protest against.
So is Mr. Allen daring to bite the hand that feeds him? Or simply another example of a public display of stupidity by another fucking attention-seeking whore and hypocrite?
Save your phony outrage, Mr. Allen.
ReplyDeleteHe is violating the First Amendment rights of Americans. Shopping is our religion!
ReplyDeleteWhat did his parents do to him to mess him up so badly?"
ReplyDeleteI think the real question is what did he do to his parents to mess them up so badly.
ReplyDeleteSERIOUSLY IMPORTANT KANSAS CITY ART WORK
ReplyDeleteSeriously?
Sounds like TKC (like City Hall) is getting schmoozed at too many Crossroads parties.
Why didn't he park his ass in front of the stockroom door so we could all laugh when the forklift runs over him?
ReplyDeleteGo Capitalism!
Go Profit Margins!
Go Black Friday!
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to accurately predict what a child would end up like before the sex act to produce it even begins?
ReplyDeleteWalMart is the original family business.
ReplyDeleteAttention seeking jackass.
ReplyDeleteI know it is cool to hate Wal-Mart but as a poor person, that is one of the few stores where I can buy goods I would not normally afford. I bet the assholes who hate Walmart like the Shaper Image or the other high end stores.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Tony has a new friend.
ReplyDeleteSo some douchebag put himself in a bag for about 2 minutes and its art?? What about protesting all the killings in kc. I'd love to see this douche put himself in a bag at 27 and prospect on a summer Friday night. Lets record that!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Glazer can book him into Stanfords or Tony could fix him up with Toni Bones.
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO!!!
ReplyDeleteThe funniest part is how Tony try's to spin this shit to make it sound like it's as important as the invention of electricity or something.
ReplyDeleteHillarious
He is cute. I'll do "mouth-to-dick" resuscitation on him any time.
ReplyDelete9:37 brilliant insight, great comment.
ReplyDeleteWhy is his name on the bag? Did he think someone would mistake him for the other douches lying around Walmart in body bags? Totally a PR stunt, nothing more.
ReplyDeleteChina art is just so disgusting and so are many of you here. He'll, I bet one of these posters is going to the wal marts today.
ReplyDeleteMmmm mmmm gurfrieennd.
Just think how much more great art like this we'll be able to have once Sly and Burke's 1% for arts share is applied to the multi- million PIAC funds.
ReplyDeleteShould be worth at least two or three more $100K+ jobs on the 29th floor!
I would love to see the mayor dancing in drag at hamburger Mary's eating a big cheeseburger and grinning ear to ear while waving his spirit fingers all so gleefully
ReplyDeleteHe's an idiot! Performance art....laughable
ReplyDeleteAre you dorks actually defending walmart? Have you seen the way they run the Royals? They don't really care about you.
ReplyDeleteI would have died laughing if I saw this. Comic relief at its best. Very entertaining.
ReplyDeleteHe's not gonna get on the evening news unless he starts wanking while he lies there.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much lead is in those stores from all their products from china.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know where my little soncho is? Vats locos forever ese.
ReplyDeleteWorthless stunt. No talent.
ReplyDeleteGo feed the hungry.
lame.
ReplyDeleteHe should have set himself on fire monk style in a checkout line
ReplyDeleteHaha, this is too funny! But this certainly is not important and it's not even good art for that matter. But to see some dip shit lying in a body bag in Walmart, while the staff try to sort it out is funny! It's too bad Walmart didn't have KCPD haul his dumb ass off to jail for a night of entertainment in the Jackson County jail.
ReplyDeleteHey 8:52am...yeah you shitface...howdya like my spelling now.
ReplyDeleteRead the post fuckwad and see where Malibue was spelled this way in the post.
I spelled what I saw in the post in the off chance that there is such a place as Malibue as it was spelled in the post.
So shit for brains read the post and recognize I spelled what I saw in the post.
Hope you enjoyed my spelling this time you afterbirth for brains.
Now pipe up again you ass maggot.
settle down 6:53...you'll feel better after Byron massages your balls.
ReplyDeleteI CALL MAJOR BULLSHIT!!!!!
ReplyDelete1) A WalMart in Lee's Summit? Wow! He just happened to pick an ultra-safe environment to stage his daring "performance"!
2) The store was not crowded, and he got up and left when ask to do so. He was largely ignored, until WalMart staff designated him a tripping hazard in an aisle.
3) An accomplice stood a few feet away the whole time, served as backup, and took the video.
STUPID....POINTLESS....IMMATURE....SELFISH.....SPOILED CHILD OF SUBURBIA....PEPPERDINE GRAD!!!(haha)...PSEUDO-ARTIST....NARCISSIST
This guy's "performance" is akin to the junior and high school kids who camp out in cardboard boxes for one cold night to simulate being homeless! Of course, they're oftentimes bundled up in their designer fashion coats and sipping on Starbucks!
Now, if the guy wants to say that he's really laughing and parodying the absurdity of broadcast news and those who call themselves performance artists, then I'll cut him some slack.
Also, if this guy is who I think he is, he has a parent who's a local newsie, and TKC probably posted this as a favor to that Fox4 person.
8:15 pm whenever Byron's balls start itching he scratches your jaw.
ReplyDeleteYou are a real stooge... as I chuckle at how homophobic you must be.
Go back to your bedroom and relate to yourself some more kid.
Who is this Mark Allen guy?
ReplyDeleteI like the cut of his jib!
First thing I learned at art school was: There's no such thing as bad publicity.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing I learned at art school was: There's no such thing as bad publicity.
ReplyDeleteFor Immediate Release:
ReplyDeleteMr. & Mrs. Mark Alford of Lee's Summit, he of Fox4 Morning News, wish to publicly state that our son "Mark Allen" is an adult of legal age, and as such, his actions are entirely his own.
Had a child or elderly person tripped over our son while he was prone on the floor of WalMart while enclosed inside a body bag, we would have denied any knowledge or responsibility for this act.
While the senior Mr. Alford continues in the television news business despite hitting burnout years ago, he has encouraged his son to pursue the media limelight albeit with a comedic, sarcastic twist. You see, they both share a trait for wishing to be the center of attention.
"Mark Allen" is currently planning his next performance. After ordering Taco Bell from the drive-through, he will park short of the pick-up window, exit his vehicle, enter his body bag and lay prone on the concrete, blocking traffic! Of course, this will be done in Lee's Summit, at midnight, so as to be authentically daring! This radical act of civil disobedience is designed as a critique of mankind's quest for endless combinations of meat, beans, and tortilla products!
....this now concludes my written artistic "performance."
Yet another prime example of the true nature of this country. Act like an idiot, get your recognition, feel like a hero, and other idiots will make sure there is a payday. I hope he ends up in a real body bag soon. Get a life big boy!
ReplyDeleteOccupy Mark Allen!!!
ReplyDeleteYou just got Pussed!
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