Seven reflections on Liberating Tate
As BP’s sponsorship of the Tate ends, Kevin Smith of Liberate Tate looks back at the successful campaign to get the oil firm’s dirty money out of the art gallery
After six years of Liberate Tate spilling oil, squirting paint tubes, flapping huge squares of cloth, counting carbon levels with our voices, learning how to give tattoos, installing giant wind turbine blades and melting Arctic ice, we learned last week that the Tate-BP relationship was over. Here’s some of what we learned from our efforts to push big oil out of the arts.
1) This was about Tate, but much more about BP
Our work on Tate is about trying to kick some of the supporting legs out from underneath BP’s chair – taking a relationship that nurtures and sustains BP and transforming it into one that was actively damaging for the company.
London, 19/03/2016.- Activistes del moviment Liberate Tate celebren que la companya British Petroleum retira el patrocini del museu Tate Modern. Durant anys, han estat fent accions creatives per denunciar el rentat verd d´aquesta contaminant petroliera. Continue reading “Tate Gallery liberated from Fossil Fools (+ video)”
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