Art Not Oil heads to Scotland - update & call for help
Sandy Harken | 22.06.2005 22:13 | G8 2005 | Culture | Ecology
Profit-land
Specific things that it would be great to get some help with are:
* getting more (really good) work, painting and everything else. Please delve into your contacts, or have a gander at the web, as there's loads of amazing stuff out there;
* helping sort the space in Edinburgh on July 1st, or keep an eye out for it at some point during its stay;
* finding money for the next stages, small or large; fantastic A0 prints are a tenner each!
* helping set up Oxford House at the end of July, and brainstorming how to fill the space;
* smuggling the story into the arty & other media.
That's probably enough to be going on with.
Below is an updated blurb for forwardage.
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ART NOT OIL
Art Not Oil is 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.
The project is designed in part to paint a truer portrait of an oil company than the caring image manufactured by the BP Portrait Award, run by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), a search for the year's 'best' portrait which also helps to divert public attention and indignation from BP's core activities.
Climate chaos is set to have a catastrophic effect on all of us, while hitting the poorest hardest. Oil is a curse that also fuels war, poverty and environmental destruction. Yet the companies most responsible are profiting handsomely, and they are still welcome it seems in many of our most prestigious public galleries and museums. Why?
Art Not Oil 2005 is in part an exhibition that includes paintings, photos, sculpture and other work that addresses issues like climate chaos, shiny corporate public relations (also known as 'greenwash') and the suicidal madness that proclaims 'profit is king'. We also welcome work dealing with the cancerous impact of the oil industry on the planet, and work that dares to imagine what solutions to these serious but not insoluble problems might look like.
2005 tour dates:
July 1-7, Teviot students union building, Bristo Square, Edinburgh
and shadowing the BP Portrait Award:
1-31 August: Oxford House, Derbyshire St, London E2 6HG www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/
(at some point during) 6 Oct - 27th Nov: Sunderland
(at some point during) 17 December - 12 March: back in Edinburgh
... and send us your art!
07708 794665
info@artnotoil.org.uk
c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
www.artnotoil.org.uk
www.nationalpetroleumgallery.org.uk
www.risingtide.org.uk
* getting more (really good) work, painting and everything else. Please delve into your contacts, or have a gander at the web, as there's loads of amazing stuff out there;
* helping sort the space in Edinburgh on July 1st, or keep an eye out for it at some point during its stay;
* finding money for the next stages, small or large; fantastic A0 prints are a tenner each!
* helping set up Oxford House at the end of July, and brainstorming how to fill the space;
* smuggling the story into the arty & other media.
That's probably enough to be going on with.
Below is an updated blurb for forwardage.
--------------------------
ART NOT OIL
Art Not Oil is 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.
The project is designed in part to paint a truer portrait of an oil company than the caring image manufactured by the BP Portrait Award, run by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), a search for the year's 'best' portrait which also helps to divert public attention and indignation from BP's core activities.
Climate chaos is set to have a catastrophic effect on all of us, while hitting the poorest hardest. Oil is a curse that also fuels war, poverty and environmental destruction. Yet the companies most responsible are profiting handsomely, and they are still welcome it seems in many of our most prestigious public galleries and museums. Why?
Art Not Oil 2005 is in part an exhibition that includes paintings, photos, sculpture and other work that addresses issues like climate chaos, shiny corporate public relations (also known as 'greenwash') and the suicidal madness that proclaims 'profit is king'. We also welcome work dealing with the cancerous impact of the oil industry on the planet, and work that dares to imagine what solutions to these serious but not insoluble problems might look like.
2005 tour dates:
July 1-7, Teviot students union building, Bristo Square, Edinburgh
and shadowing the BP Portrait Award:
1-31 August: Oxford House, Derbyshire St, London E2 6HG www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/
(at some point during) 6 Oct - 27th Nov: Sunderland
(at some point during) 17 December - 12 March: back in Edinburgh
... and send us your art!
07708 794665
info@artnotoil.org.uk c/o 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
www.artnotoil.org.uk
www.nationalpetroleumgallery.org.uk
www.risingtide.org.uk
Sandy Harken
Comments
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The world runs on oil!
23.06.2005 08:40
Tom
Embrace your inner hypocrite, and take action anyway
23.06.2005 10:26
'Climate chaos is set to have a catastrophic effect on all of us, while hitting the poorest hardest. Oil is a curse that also fuels war, poverty and environmental destruction. Yet the companies most responsible are profiting handsomely, and they are still welcome it seems in many of our most prestigious public galleries and museums. Why?'
For plenty of good background on a bad situation, go to www.planb.org and have a download of 'Beyond Oil - the oil curse and solutions for an oil-free future': 'This 32 page A5 booklet brings together background info on oil and conflict, repressive regimes, development, oil industry workers, and climate change. Together with info on the revolving doors and mutual support between the oil industry, government and the International Financial Institutions which fund new oil projects, it lays out the UK’s involvement in the oil curse, and the action we can take to challenge it.'
Love and thirst,
Oyle
PS. My mantra for the moment:
Embrace your inner hypocrite, and take action anyway
Oyle E. Rag
Dear Tom
23.06.2005 19:21
Go on - make a difference....
markr rpen
Hypocrites!
24.06.2005 08:43
MODERN SOCIETY WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT OIL!
Tom
And what will modern society do when it runs out?...
26.06.2005 09:26
By ruthlessly promoting an oil based economy over the last half century, Western governments have promoted dictators, started wars, looked on impassively as the environment begins to collapse and undermined legitimate governments who refused to dance to their tune. Millions have died, more when you include the health consequences of the indiscriminate burning of oil and other fossil fuels. And all the while they have preached freedom, democracy and peace. Now that is hypocracy!!
Skyver Bill