Fake BP staff and Iraqi protesters greet press at BP-sponsored exhibition (6.11.18)

Art Not Oil Sat, 10/11/2018 - 6:28pm
[Photos by Kristian Buus] From our friends at BP or not BP?: On November 6th 2018, a group of performers set up a fake BP “welcoming committee” and Iraqi civilian protest in front of the I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria exhibition at the British Museum. The performance was timed to coincide with a private exhibition viewing by journalists and VIPs, and the performers stayed for the whole morning talking to journalists, museum visitors and staff. The performers were from the activist theatre group BP or not BP?, and included a number of people of Iraqi heritage.

From Nope to Hope art exhibition, 15-23 Sept 2018

Art Not Oil Tue, 11/09/2018 - 2:23pm
From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil and Injustice, 15-23 September, Brixton Recreation Centre, 27 Brixton Station Road, London SW9 8QQ Part of the Brixton Design Trail during the London Design Festival Free entry, 9am-9pm The exhibition includes most of the art that was originally removed from the ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition at the Design Museum in protest at the museum hosting an arms industry event. It also includes political, activist and grassroots art from the Guerrilla Girls, Jeremy Deller, Gee Vaucher, Art the Arms Fair and many more.

SCIENTISTS CALL OUT SCIENCE MUSEUM OVER TIES TO BIG OIL

Art Not Oil Thu, 05/07/2018 - 2:15pm
From https://www.behindthelogos.org/scientists-call-out-science-museum/ A group that includes many leading climate scientists have today lodged a formal complaint with the Science Museum The museum is accused of ‘undermining its integrity as a scientific institution’ by partnering with BP, Shell and Statoil despite their continued contribution to climate change The complaint presents new evidence showing the museum knew about sponsors’ ties to corruption and climate disinformation but signed deals regardless Toda

Loud, clear and huge in Amsterdam

Art Not Oil Mon, 11/06/2018 - 4:33pm

Around 14:00 (9.6.18), one of the 35 Fossil Free Culture Netherlands performers positioned herself on the monumental staircase of the Van Gogh Museum's main building in Amsterdam, ready to declaim the collective’s newly penned manifesto. As her words rang out, others unfurled long paper banners from the balustrades one by one. Only after the declamation was complete, was the full text legible: END THE FOSSIL FUEL AGE NOW. The typographic work of artists such as Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer inspired the presentation of the manifesto.