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Sounds Good
Tate à Tate is a site-specific sound artwork themed around the issue of BP sponsorship of Tate presented by Platform and Liberate Tate. Tate à Tate is created by Ansuman Biswas (Tate Britain), Isa Suarez, Mae Martin and Mark McGowan (Tate Boat) and Phil England and Jim Welton (Tate Modern).
Bad Manners
The riots that hit London last Summer have been dismissed by the Establishment as reckless criminality. But the question that is never asked is why so many young kids were prepared to risk jail and revolt in the way they did.
Pussy Riot Pricks Putin’s Bubble
Pussy Riot are a collective of Russian feminist punk rockers who have been staging illegal actions against the Russian State and the corrupt regime of Vladmir Putin. Expressing the frustration and rage of a young generation is Russia unhappy with a society run by Oligarchs.
Call The Doctor
Dr.D has been doing some great street level interventions over the last few years, his most recent action was to set up this great fake crime scene to protest the privatisation of the NHS by the ConDem government, below are pics of the crime scene and one more recently subvertised billboard.
Brand Pirates Attack BP
Hundreds of BP signs across London have been targeted by activists protesting against the company’s role as ‘Sustainability Partner’ of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Around the capital, protesters hit petrol stations, advertising hoardings, and BP-sponsored cultural institutions, disfiguring hundreds of the famous BP ‘sunflower’ logo.
Reclaiming The Commons, One Train At A Time
Planku a collective in Sweden have instigated an interesting campaign for free, ad-free public transport, here is a video of one of their actions and a text from their website of their aims.
Viva Placardistas!
On 26 March 2011, 500,000 people marched through London in protest against government spending cuts. The March For The Alternative was one of the largest demonstrations ever seen in the UK. To mark the day, a group from Goldsmiths university asked to collect peoples placards from them at the end of the demo.
Go With The Floe?
At night on Saturday the 14th January the art collective Liberate Tate carried out their latest unofficial performance in Tate Modern highlighting Tate’s complicity in BP’s controversial oil extraction practices around the world.
The Cost Of Money
Rainforest Action Network activists took to the streets of San Francisco last night and turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine.
Under The Paving Stones…