Art Not Oil

Singing campaigners call on curator of Meltdown festival to speak out about Shell’s Southbank sponsorship

On the afternoon of Sunday 9th June, a flashmob of over 30 singers gathered in the foyer of the Queen Elizabeth Hall as audience members arrived for the Shell-sponsored performance by Spira Mirabilis of Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen. The singers launched into a version of Leonard Cohen’s classic song, Hallelujah, with rewritten lyrics drawing attention to Shell’s controversial human rights and environmental record. They unfurled a banner with Yoko Ono’s quotation ‘Art is a means for survival’ and handed out flyers to audience members. They gave a number of repeat performances around the Southbank which drew applause and support.

Message from Shell Out Sounds:

Hello,

On Sunday we visit the Southbank Centre for the third time this year,
because Shell is systematically villainous, and we're turning our
indignation melodic, as it were.

It would be excellent if you could spread the word in any way, even if you
can't make it yourself.

If you can, come to the Calder Bookshop at midday this Sunday 9th. If
you're mad busy or otherwise, just come to the QEH for 2.30 and holler
'Hallelujah' with us. Any of these options is good! Mail me if you'd like
an mp3 sent your way.

Bye!

SOS

PS. Check out Make Art Not Oil, June 15th:
http://makeartnotoil.tumblr.com/post/50610427888/invitation-make-art-not-oil

Turning FACT Inside Out focuses on some of the most pressing, controversial
and literally ground-breaking political issues of today.

The main work in the exhibition is called Fracking Futures by French
artists HeHe, it is a miniaturised recreation of a Fracking site complete
with fire, earth tremors, gas and a giant infected water pool in the shape
of Shell's logo.

It's designed to encourage a conversation about the risks and problems
associated with Fracking and fossil fuels.

There's loads of information on their website at www.fact.co.uk/tfio. 

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Turning FACT Inside Out

13 June - 15 September

This summer at FACT, a selection of provocative

international artists tackle some of the most

pressing, controversial and literally ground-breaking

political issues of today.


As FACT celebrates the first decade of its building

as one of the UK's primary centres for new media art,

it has commissioned an artists' take over, featuring

bold, new or never before seen in the UK works

from emerging and established artists, including

HeHe, Nina Edge, Katarzyna Krakowiak,

Steve Lambert, Manifest.AR, and Uncoded Collective.

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
88 Wood Street
Liverpool, L1 4DQ


*FACT - Bringing people, art and *
*technology together since 2003*

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