Art Not Oil 2005; (not the National Petroleum Gallery!)
Sandy Nairne | 12.04.2005 09:37 | Culture | Ecology | Globalisation
BP boss Browne in the dock for his company's sundry crimes
Art Not Oil is an annual event aimed at encouraging artists to create work that explores the damage that companies like BP are doing to the planet, and the role art can play in counteracting that damage.
It is designed in part to paint a truer portrait of an oil company than the caring image manufactured by the BP Portrait Award, a search for the year's 'best' portrait which also happens to divert public attention from BP's actual activities. Climate chaos is set to have a catastrophic effect on all of us, while hitting the poorest hardest. The companies most responsible are profiting handsomely, yet they're still welcome it seems in many of our most prestigious public galleries and museums.
Art Not Oil 2005 will include paintings, photos, sculpture and other creations that address issues like climate chaos, corporate greenwash and the suicidal madness that proclaims 'profit is king' and 'money can solve any problem'. We also warmly welcome work dealing with the cancerous impact of the oil industry on the planet, and of course work that dares to imagine what solutions to these serious but not insoluble problems might look like.
We have produced a 'Call for Entries' leaflet, which looks uncannily like the one produced by the National Petroleum - sorry, Portrait - Gallery, and we have a very fetching postcard of BP boss Lord Browne, which was the People's Choice from Art Not Oil 2004. If you're able to help spread the word or are just interested for yourself, send us an address and the amount of each you'd like.
Art Not Oil 2005 will begin as a virtual gallery at www.artnotoil.org.uk, progressing we hope to a physical space at some point during the year. This could be in London or perhaps Scotland, since the G8 will be there in July, as will many thousands of protesters calling for justice, freedom and a fossil fuel-free future.
Do you know a great place for an exhibition like this, either this year or in years to come? Could you put any time into helping make it happen? Or do you have something you'd like to exhibit? If so, it would be great to hear from you.
Contact us on: 07708 794665
info@artnotoil.org.uk
c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
www.artnotoil.org.uk
www.nationalpetroleumgallery.org.uk
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
It is designed in part to paint a truer portrait of an oil company than the caring image manufactured by the BP Portrait Award, a search for the year's 'best' portrait which also happens to divert public attention from BP's actual activities. Climate chaos is set to have a catastrophic effect on all of us, while hitting the poorest hardest. The companies most responsible are profiting handsomely, yet they're still welcome it seems in many of our most prestigious public galleries and museums.
Art Not Oil 2005 will include paintings, photos, sculpture and other creations that address issues like climate chaos, corporate greenwash and the suicidal madness that proclaims 'profit is king' and 'money can solve any problem'. We also warmly welcome work dealing with the cancerous impact of the oil industry on the planet, and of course work that dares to imagine what solutions to these serious but not insoluble problems might look like.
We have produced a 'Call for Entries' leaflet, which looks uncannily like the one produced by the National Petroleum - sorry, Portrait - Gallery, and we have a very fetching postcard of BP boss Lord Browne, which was the People's Choice from Art Not Oil 2004. If you're able to help spread the word or are just interested for yourself, send us an address and the amount of each you'd like.
Art Not Oil 2005 will begin as a virtual gallery at www.artnotoil.org.uk, progressing we hope to a physical space at some point during the year. This could be in London or perhaps Scotland, since the G8 will be there in July, as will many thousands of protesters calling for justice, freedom and a fossil fuel-free future.
Do you know a great place for an exhibition like this, either this year or in years to come? Could you put any time into helping make it happen? Or do you have something you'd like to exhibit? If so, it would be great to hear from you.
Contact us on: 07708 794665
info@artnotoil.org.uk c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
www.artnotoil.org.uk
www.nationalpetroleumgallery.org.uk
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
Sandy Nairne
e-mail:
info@artnotoil.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk
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BP: the charges
12.04.2005 13:13
* BP has a commitment to expand its fossil fuel production by at least 3.5% per year, (though this figure is likely to top 5% during 2005-6).
* Fossil fuel-induced climate chaos hit Europe in August 2003, killing tens of thousands of mostly older people in record-breaking temperatures; 150,000 may have died worldwide.
* BP has bankrolled Colombian paramilitary death squads in exchange for the ‘protection’ of its oilfields, (www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/)
* ‘Exposed: BP, its pipeline, and an environmental time-bomb’ Independent (26.6.04) on BP’s US-inspired and protected Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil & gas pipelines, which will be a human rights disaster & produce over 150m tonnes of CO2 each year for 40 years, causing untold damage to the world’s climate; baku.org.uk
* BP invests less than 1% of its annual budget in solar & other renewable energy sources, much less than it ploughs into advertising and PR.
* BP has been investigated by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) for serious and widespread safety breaches at its UK refineries. In 2002, the HSE fined it £1m for these breaches.
* 15 workers were killed and over 100 injured in an explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery on March 23rd 2005; 11 BP employees died at work during 2004.
* In 2005, as BP oil-workers see their personal safety, union rights and wages in tatters (www.oilc.org), BP boss Lord Browne’s own salary soars to £5.6m…
Noisy Mo
national petroleum gallery
09.05.2005 13:22
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