In 2010, in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, art activists staged a dramatic series of performances in cultural institutions to protest against oil companies like BP and Shell sponsoring gallery spaces like the Tate. Gushing from floral skirts, spilling elegantly from giant white eggs, jetting from paint tubes across the floor of the iconic Tate Turbine Hall, the flood of oily resistance that followed has generated a fierce debate in the art world around oil, ethics and sponsorship.
 
This collection of beautiful postcards, made in collaboration with PLATFORM and Art Not Oil, documents both the striking images that the performances have generated, as well as a number of choice quotes that have come out of the ensuing public debate.
 
Please make a donation on the http://www.indiegogo.com/licencetospill site and we will send you a collected set of the post cards.
 
All the proceeds generated from the sale of these postcards will be used towards a participatory exhibition in a London-based arts space in 2011 that will further the campaign to liberate art institutions from the clutches of some of the most destructive multi-national companies on the planet.
 
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Please support Platform’s new crowd-funding initiative
Licence to Spill
It’s an interactive and ethical way to raise funds for our campaign against dirty oil sponsorship in the arts. Be it £5 or £500, every penny will contribute to the costs of putting on a five day gallery event with debates, workshops and creative interventions.
It’s time to kick oil out of the arts.

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