BP Week of Action

BP and culture: time to break it off!

A week of action to kick BP out of our cultural spaces

14 – 20 April 2011

​Find out all about it at our dedicated BP Week of Action micro-site

PRESS RELEASE from' Facing the Gulf - Portraits of Oil', 7.3.11:

Tel: (0)1 504 460 5845; facingthegulf@gmail.com

http://facingthegulfportraitsofoil.blogspot.com

http://liberatetate.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/alternative-tate-audio-tour-extended-deadline/

There are exciting plans hatching in London to commemorate the first anniversary of BP (and friends') Deepwater oil spill. Watch this space for more info.

Where: Tate Britain, Millbank SW1

http://www.theecologist.org/reviews/events/763162/greenland_at_the_national_theatre.html

Hi there,I just wanted to give you a little update on where we are at with the Licence to Spill exhibition that you very kindly supported.

Artist Nick Viney has created a poignant artistic memorial to the 11 lives lost in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster by representing them as oiled seabird sculptures.

Another Victim of the Gulf Oil Spill: The British Arts?

In the early evening of Tuesday September 14th 2010, a group of artist/activists staged another art-intervention in the Tate Modern turbine hall, with a choreographed sequential squeezing of BP-logo-ed tubes of paint containing 'an oil-like substance'. You can see a 3 minute video clip of the performance here:

Should the art world dump BP?

Greenpeace boss Sauven on BP and the Tate: