Art Not Oil

Members of the newly-formed but up-and-coming Reclaim Shakespeare Company delivered an unexpected birthday present to the Bard on his birthday, (23.4.12), by making an unexpected intervention before the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of 'The Tempest' at his home in Stratford-upon-Avon:

A letter of protest at BP's cultural hijack was published in the Guardian on 23.4.12: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/apr/22/oiling-wheels-shakespeare-festival

More here: http://bp-or-not-bp.org, including links to numerous reviews of this foray, and another 2 days later, this time an a cappella intervention before the press performance of 'Twelfth Night', also at Stratford

BP logo'd Tate Britain flags receive an oiling, (April 2012) 

http://www.agitartworks.com/f-ingthefuture.htm

Art Monthly review: http://morganquaintance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/liberate-tate-and-platform-tate-a-tate/

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Liberate Tate, Platform and Art Not Oil launch alternative audio tour of London’s Tate galleries in response to the public institution’s links with oil company BP

A new series of artworks questioning Tate’s relationship with BP has been jointly commissioned by art collective Liberate Tate, arts and research organisation Platform and activist group Art Not Oil.

(Press release & images taken from www.f-ingthefuture.org)

BP’s Olympic branding defaced throughout London

 23rd February – For Immediate Release

Today hundreds of BP signs across London were targeted by activists protesting against the company’s role as ‘Sustainability Partner’ of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Around the capital, protesters hit petrol stations, advertising hoardings, and BP-sponsored cultural institutions[1], disfiguring hundreds of the famous BP ‘sunflower’ logo. Advertisements with the company’s Olympic strapline ‘fuelling the future’ were altered with the addition of three asterisks to make ‘f***ing the future’.

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/tweeting-rooftops-shell-keep-out-arctic-20120221

(Photos by Vita Brown)

http://vimeo.com/35078978

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...