indignation – inspiration – creation... solution?
ART NOT OIL
at Oxford House, Derbyshire St., London E2 6HG
Bethnal Green tube
EXHIBITION RUNS AUGUST 5th-28th
Mon - Fri: 9am - 10pm; Sat & Sun: 10am - 6pm
Leaflets & posters available from info@artnotoil.org.uk
FREE PUBLIC OPENING, THURSDAY AUGUST 4th, 6-10pm:
art – live music/poetry (aka Ramshackle Oily Karaoke) - film – sound – food – talk
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 is aimed at encouraging artists to create work that explores the damage that companies like BP, Shell and Exxon 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.
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.
Further 2005-6 tour dates, (shadowing the BP Portrait Award): (at some point during) 6 Oct - 27th Nov: Sunderland (at some point during) 17 December - 12 March 2006: Edinburgh June 2006: back to London
Send us your art!
07708 794665
info@artnotoil.org.uk
62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES.
artnotoil.org.uk
http://nationalpetroleumgallery.org.uk
http://londonrisingtide.org.uk
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