From EcoArtScotland/Reblogged from Liberate Tate Blog:
Floe Piece (2012)
Arctic ice, canvas, light, water
“The fact that BP had one major incident in 2010 does not mean we should not be taking support from them.†Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate.
On 14 January 2012 Liberate Tate carried out another unofficial performance highlighting Tate’s complicity in BP’s ongoing controversial oil extraction practices around the world. At 6.30pm at the Occupy London protest camp at St Paul’s Cathedral four veiled figures dressed in black lifted a 55kg chunk of Arctic ice onto a sledge and walked it in procession across the Thames on the Millennium Bridge and into the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.
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