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By: Liberate Tate
Date: Sat, 23/11/2013 - 4:41pm
Art collective Liberate Tate perform rising carbon levels to chronology of Tate Britain re-hang
Fifty veiled figures dressed in black today carried out a performance art installation entitled ‘Parts Per Million’ throughout a series of rooms in
By: Platform
Date: Mon, 11/11/2013 - 12:00am
A group of artists, musicians and authors who have all performed at the Southbank Centre have signed a letter (see below) calling on the arts institution to drop Shell sponsorship on the 18th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9. The 21 artists, including actor Mark Rylance, playwright Mark
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 09/11/2013 - 3:34pm
On Friday 25th October, just before the start of a Shell-sponsored concert at the Royal Festival Hall, a group of fifteen singers dressed in black with purple sashes stood up behind the stage and began to sing. The Shell Out Sounds choir had struck again.
From the choir seats, they sang 'Oil in the water', a version of the well-known spiritual 'Wade in the water' rewritten to tell the