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Climate Activists Occupy Tate Modern In Dramatic Protest Over BP Sponsorship Of The Arts

Climate Activists Occupy Tate Modern In Dramatic Protest Over BP Sponsorship Of The Arts

by The Daily Eye Team June 17 2015, 12:11 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 40 secs

On Saturday, activists occupied Tate Modern and staged a 25-hour “textual intervention” at the museum’s Turbine Hall to protest against Tate’s ongoing sponsorship agreement with BP. The protest performance consisted of covering the sprawling hall with quotes from books about, and reports on, climate change—including Margaret Atwood’s sci-fi novel Oryx and Crake, the UN’s latest climate science report, and Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate—which participants wrote with charcoal on the concrete floor. “We’re filling the Turbine Hall with a tide of ideas and narratives of art, activism, climate change, and oil,” Eva Blackwell, of the arts activism group Liberate Tate, told the Guardian.

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