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  Floe Piece – Arctic Melting Effects – Liberate Tate

  October 29, 2012 at 3:21 pm / Art & Performance, Environmental, Liberate Tate, Productions, Productions by You and I Films

  Floe Piece Liberate Tate. Arctic Ice, canvas, light, water. “The fact that BP had one major incident in 2010 does not mean we should not be taking support from them.” – Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate. [Floe Piece - an expression applied to sheets of ice not more than a furlong in length] The Deepwater Horizon disaster did not end in 2010 for the communities affected; BP’s harmful impacts are numerous and occur across the globe year on year. In 2010-11 [...]

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  The Gift

  October 29, 2012 at 3:16 pm / Art & Performance, Environmental, Liberate Tate, Productions, Productions by You and I Films

  Art collective Liberate Tate (www.liberatetate.org) has installed a massive 16.5 metre (40 foot), one and a half tonne wind turbine blade in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall Saturday (7 July 2012) submitting the artwork to be part of Tate’s permanent collection. The artwork, called ‘The Gift’, was installed in an unofficial performance involving over 100 members of the group that has become internationally renowned for artworks aimed at ending the relationship of Tate and other national cultural institutions with oil companies. [...]

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  Reverend Billy and & The Church of Earthalujah – An exorcism of the evil spirit of BP

  October 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm / Art & Performance, Environmental, Liberate Tate, Productions, Productions by You and I Films

  Monday, July 18, 2011 – 5:30pm Earthalujah UK Tour: Liberate Tate Reverend Billy and & The Church of Earthalujah invite you to a service at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall on Monday 18 July, 5.30. An exorcism of the evil spirit of BP, brought to you by Liberate Tate, UK Tar Sands Network, London Rising Tide, Art Not Oil and Climate Rush. Brothers and sisters, a dark beast lurks within the bosom of one of our most cherished arts institutions. [...]

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  Crude (2010) – Oil Painting Protest over BP sponsorship in Tate Modern

  October 29, 2012 at 3:09 pm / Art & Performance, Current Affairs, Environmental, Liberate Tate, Productions, Productions by You and I Films

  The flash mob-style event was staged a day before a Tate Board of Trustees meeting. Liberate Tate are part of a growing public movement calling on Tate’s governing body to end its sponsorship agreement with the oil company. Tate’s Board of Trustees has decided to review the BP corporate sponsorship. At 5pm, around 50 figures dressed in black entered the gallery each carrying a BP-branded oil paint tube. In a circle they placed the paint tubes on the floor and [...]

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  Channel 4 News – Human Form by Liberate Tate

  October 26, 2012 at 3:56 pm / Art & Performance, Environmental, Liberate Tate, Productions, Productions by You and I Films

  Channel 4 news story about Liberate Tate’s “Human Form” oil spill performance action at the Tate Britain. Should corporate sponsorship of socially influential organisations like the Tate be allowed? Tate’s cultural endorsement of  BP has questionable social and environmental ethics and with its brand being key who does this relationship benefit? Footage shot by “You and I Films” –  http://www.youandifilms.com 

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  ‘Licence to spill’: an oil spill at the Tate Summer Party celebrating 20 years of BP support (June 2010)

  October 26, 2012 at 3:47 pm / Art & Performance, Environmental, Liberate Tate, Productions, Productions by You and I Films

  Apart from catastrophic spills like the Deepwater Horizon, there are a whole host of adverse impacts that are associated with the production of oil. On the local level, it often involves extreme forms of pollution for local communities, while regionally oil is frequently associated with greater militarization and conflict. Globally, carbon emissions, oil companies, and our collective dependence on the product they push, are taking us ever closer to the edge of climate catastrophe. In order for an oil company [...]

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