For 25 hours, a group of 20 people painted the floor in the Turbine hall of the gallery quotes from the books and reviews about global climate change

for many years environmentalists are protesting against the fact that one of the UK's leading museums — the Tate — sponsored by fuel company British Petroleum. The most impressive actions took place in 2010, when the gallery, despite the explosion of the oil platform BP in the Gulf of Mexico, staged a gala evening in honor of the 20th anniversary of sponsorship of the fuel company. published an open letter of protest over 150 cultural figures, party activists staged a picket at the entrance to the gallery, and the most ardent conservationists spilled at the entrance and in the lobby of oil resembling molasses on top and sketched the bird's feathers. Those who got in were released in the Turbine hall of helium balloons with a rotten fish inside, in which employees had to shoot from pneumatic vitovec@

In the administration of the Tate reported that seriously considering the termination of the contract with British Petroleum. But before that never came, the contract was extended, and the management BP promised to "renew and extend" support and highlight the British Museum 10 million pounds in the next five let@

Since then, the protests have become much more calm, but every year to declare themselves activists committed. Once they brought in the Tate block of ice that was supposed to symbolize the melting of the developments in the oil the eternal ice. Another time Turbine hall by a group of a hundred people was brought from the old blade wind turbine, what was to become a symbol of renewable energy, opposed by the oil industry. In total, since 2010 it has been 14 performances@

this year 20 members of the group "Liberate Tate" for 25 hours spent "text invasion" in the Turbine hall of the Tate. They covered the floor of the hall of quotes from books and reviews about climate changes on the planet — for example, from a science fiction novel by Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and corncrake", from the latest UN report on climate state of the Earth, from the book by Naomi Klein "This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate". Quotes they wrote uglem@

"We fill the Turbine hall with a wave of ideas and thoughts about art, activism, climate change, and the oil," commented a participant Eva Blackwell@

the Museum was not notified in advance about the conduct of a performance. However, the staff treated him loyally. Even when the email came to an end, and at the request of the guards removed the activists refused, forced their one kick did not, they were allowed to stay in the Museum all night and did not cause policiy@

the next morning the area where there were activists, was fenced, but the audience still could watch from the balcony as they contain the inscriptions. After noon they left the Turbine hall, cleaners soon began to wash away zapisi@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru