Art Not Oil

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/art-collective-liberate-tate-uses-arctic-ice-to-protest-at-gallerys-bp-sponsorship-6290448.html

Press release 15 January 2012

Liberate Tate stage Arctic ice performance in Tate Turbine Hall

- ‘Floe-piece’ highlights Tate’s sanctioning of BP’s risky Arctic drilling

On Saturday evening (14 January 2012) art collective Liberate Tate carried out their latest unofficial performance in Tate Modern highlighting Tate’s complicity in BP’s controversial oil extraction practices around the world...

BP is sponsoring the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival in the UK. Do you have a creative response to this situation that we might be able to add to our Cultural or Vultural 2012? gallery? If so, please contact us here:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 07709 545116.

Guardian coverage: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/13/tate-bp-partnership-environmental-protests

Pressure mounts on Trustees to reject extension of relationship with BP as more than  8,000 Tate Members and visitors sign open letter calling on the art museum to break links with oil company

5 December 2011 – For Immediate Release

The decision about whether or not to renew an increasingly controversial sponsorship contract with oil giant BP is due to be made “soon” according to comments made by Tate Director Nicholas Serota at the Tate Members AGM Friday (2 December).

Bob & Roberta Smith brands oil company "a disgrace", as campaign groups call for end of sponsorship deal:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/tate-trustee-reignites-bp-row-ahead-of-turner-prize-6268886.htm

Below is embedded the full Culture Beyond Oil publication. Click expand within it to read full screen:

Liberate Tate, Art Not Oil and Platform warmly invite you to a get-together to end oil sponsorship of the arts. Featuring a performance from singer-comedian Mae Martin, contributing artist to the upcoming Tate à Tate audio tour, the evening will be the first opportunity to purchase the freshly stamped limited edition copies of 'Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil'.

Event details:

Tuesday 29th November

Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA

10.30am – 6.30pm: Oil daub performance by Ruppe Koselleck

6.30pm – 9.00pm: 'Culture Beyond Oil' launch event (refreshments provided)