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Oil Spill Art – Ruppe Koselleck on the Culture Beyond Oil launch
Last week, we launched our new publication Not if but when – Culture Beyond Oil, and German artist Ruppe Koselleck came over to help us personalise each and every one that we printed. Here’s his take on how it went. The experiment: 1000 crude oil drawings for 1000 copies to support the end of oil…
9 Dec 2011 admin -
Oil spills and violence plague Shell operations in Nigeria
Anchorage Daily News
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Tate Director Nicholas Serota says decision on BP-Tate sponsorship to be made soon
Pressure mounts on Trustees to reject extension of relationship with BP as more than 8,000 Tate Members and visitors sign open letter calling on the art museum to break links with oil company 5 December 2011 – For Immediate Release The decision about whether or not to renew an increasingly controversial sponsorship contract with oil…
5 Dec 2011 admin -
Tate Director Serota says decision on BP sponsorship soon
Pressure mounts on Trustees to reject extension of relationship with BP as more than 8,000 Tate Members and visitors sign open letter calling on the art museum to break links with oil company 5 December 2011 – For Immediate Release The decision about whether or not to renew an increasingly controversial sponsorship contract with oil…
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Photo gallery from Launch of ‘Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil’
Warm thanks to everyone who came to the launch on Tuesday – what a lovely evening. If you’ve not seen it yet check out the publication online and order copies direct from Platform.
1 Dec 2011 admin -
Discussion on oil & arts sponsorship
Channel 4 The Wright Stuff
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Pillage not development: Egypt’s military junta & the European public banks
(this article initially appeared in Bankwatch Mail 50) Bread, freedom, dignity, social justice. These were core demands articulated during the democratic and inspirational Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square at the beginning of this year. Beyond this, there was widespread support for improved public services to the poor, a shift from subservience to US foreign policy,…
29 Nov 2011 admin -
Platform Promenade – Guest blog by participant Hester Berry
Hester Berry is a landscape painter who participated in the recent series of Platform Promenade – Oil and the City. This is her account of the experience. ‘Twas a cold and misty morning. Our little group gathered at a pre-determined location near Liverpool Street Station to await instructions. All we had been told was that we…
28 Nov 2011 admin
