Laying Hands on Tate Modern
Reverend Billy & The Earthalujah Gospel Choir cast out the demon of BP's oil sponsorship of the art institution.
From the Rev: At the Tate Modern in London, British Petroleum seeks to capture our imagination by hitching its BP sunflower logo to the Miro exhibit. The artistic experience is then reduced to a dangerously passive consumerism. Only the Earth itself, a kind of freak storm inside, can free us from such a damaging lie...
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This event was brought to Tate in collaboration with Liberate Tate, UK Tar Sands Network, London Rising Tide, Art Not Oil and Climate Rush.
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Read the full reflection on the exorcism from Reverend Billy >
This event was brought to Tate in collaboration with Liberate Tate, UK Tar Sands Network, London Rising Tide, Art Not Oil and Climate Rush.
International Press around our action: