Click the image above for more information on the group’s current activities, but their founding mission and recent past actions seem promising:
…We aim to free art from the grips of the oil industry primarily focusing on Tate, the UK’s leading art museum, and its sponsorship deal with BP. We believe Tate is supporting BP, rather than the other way around, cleaning its tarnished public image with the disinfectant of “progressive” culture…
The collective’s performance [past] actions have included:
- •a contribution to Tate Modern’s 10th Birthday celebrations (28 May 2010) by hanging dead fish and birds from dozens of giant black helium balloons in the Turbine Hall
- •an ‘oil’ spill at the Tate Summer Party celebrating 20 years of BP support (28 June 2010)
- •the installation art work, ‘Crude’ which saw over 30 members of the collective draw a giant sunflower in the Turbine Hall with black oil paint bursting from BP-branded tubes of paint (14 September 2010)

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