Statement of support for the artists’ group Boycott the Sydney Biennale – end Transfield sponsorship

Liberate Tate calls for the Sydney Biennale to withdraw from the current sponsorship it receives from the Transfield Foundation, and we support the challenging of unethical sponsorship by the group Boycott the Sydney Biennale and the Biennale artists who have added their names to the open letter to the board. While artists prepare their works for …

Parts Per Million short-listed for “Best Artistic Response” in Climate Week awards

We are thrilled that our performance Parts Per Million is one of four pieces short-listed in the “Best Artistic Response” category of the Climate Week awards. Parts Per Million was our tenth performance at Tate. Tate’s vision statement says it will “demonstrate leadership in response to climate change”, yet by actively promoting BP, Tate is positioning itself …

We finally got invited to a party at Tate!

Liberate Tate were delighted to accept the open invitation from Tate to submit GIFs for its mass participatory GIF animation collage installation at tonight’s Late at Tate Britain 1840s GIF party. Tate has promised to display all the submissions it receives. We submitted 16. Remixing artworks from the 1840s room with our artistic critique of …