Licence to Spill - Liberate Tate create an oil spill at the Tate
Felix Gonzales | 29.06.2010 02:07 | Culture | Ecology | Education
License to Spill - Tate Britian
The Performance Begins
In Black they pace
The drums are emptied onto the portland floor
Feathers fly...
Spent Drums lay
The performers calmly leave
A reflection of oil...
The entrance is blocked
The Tate is marked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-_2KLt1W0 Dressed in black and veiled the performers carrying black buckets with BP logos spewed molasses over the entrance way as onlookers watched in amazement as the Portland stone floor was consumed by the black oil like mess.
Feathers were scattered and filled the air and in the same manner of approach the artists gracefully paced their escape.
Licence to Spill
"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. "
To download Licence to Spill, a new release from Platform, visit
http://www.carbonweb.org/showitem.asp?article=381&parent=39 Info :
http://www.artnotoil.org.uk/ Watch the video of the action :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-_2KLt1W0
Felix Gonzales
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