Jack Bowman
Jack Bowman
Benny Jack Bowman, is a former politician in the state of Tennessee. Bowman served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1967 to 1976. A Republican, he represented Roane County, Tennessee. Residing in Harriman, Tennessee, he was a businessman and farmer...
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ProfessionActor
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
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Performance Art is brief, about 15 minutes long. This is a problem in that you cannot get people to come out to watch a 15-minute performance.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.