TAP (Turn Around Project) visited Bhopal in December 2011 to host an arts project creating, amongst other things, this impressive mural designed, and painted, with the help of community members, plus staff and visitors to the Sambhavna Clinic.
TAP will be visiting Sambhavna again this December.
The Bhopal Enigma meets Bhopal Survivors at City Hall, London.
Artist Stephen Vince and his Bhopal Enigma sculpture get to visit City Hall London.
There they met Assembly Members Navin Shah (Labour Party) and Darren Johnson (Green Party) who were behind the recently passed ‘anti Dow’ resolution at the London Assembly, together with Balkrishna Namdev and Safreen Khan two visiting Justice for Bhopal campaigners.
Has London Forgotten Bhopal?
Poster by Divya Thakur, artist from Mumbai.
The Bhopal Enigma
Stainless steel sculpture by artist Stephen Vince.
Pictured beside ‘A Silent Picture’ by Indian artist Samhar Jodha at Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre in Shoreditch , London.
Subversive art criticising Olympic sponsors including Dow Chemical.
Various artists including, at the top, PureEvil at Amnesty International’s Human Right Action Centre in Shoreditch, London.
A Silent Picture. External View of installation.
Samar Jhoda, ‘A Silent Picture’.
At: Amnesty International UK, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
From: 19th- 31st July
ADMISSION FREE
A striking piece of installation art within a 40-foot shipping container. This is a must see show.
“Jodha’s photo-installation will contribute to perpetuate the memory of an apocalyptic event”. Dominique Lapierre, authour: Five Minutes PAst Midnight in Bhopal.
Another great example of the subversion of the Olympic sponsor brands.
More Olympic sponsor subversion
Subersive anti-Olympic sponsor art is springing up all over London. fantastic stuff!
The activist art fraternity are getting really busy and there is going to be spome really imaginative stuff about the place.
What a shame if this takes the shine of some of the slick branding!
‘Stratford - Twinned With Bhopal’.
Yes, it’s, er ‘official’. The Olympic Park in Stratford, East London, has now been twinned with Bhopal.
Painting by activist artist Ziggy Norton
Artist joins the protest against Dow Chemical sponsorship of the London Olympics with a billboard artwork in Bhopal.
From the ‘City Journal’, Kerala:
Sayed Irshad Ali, from Udaipur district in Rajasthan, is in Bhopal these days to showcase his contemporary art work, including hoardings and posters, in various public places.
He compares two major industrial disasters - the 1984 Bhopal tragedy and 2010’s oil leak from British Petroleum’s underwater drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the US coast.
“I am raising two main points through my artwork. Firstly, I am comparing these two manmade tragedies. In the first case, human beings died, and in the other, fish. The families of 500,000 Bhopal gas victims, even after 27 years, are still waiting for justice, whereas the US made BP pay a compensation of $20bn for dead fish and environmental damage in the Gulf of Mexico,” Ali said
A great photoshop mock-up of how the London Olympic Stadium might look if LOCOG go ahead with the crazy idea of allowing Dow Chemical to supply the nasty plastic ‘wrap’.
Our recyled art at night. Glastonbury 2011. For more recycled art images please also have a look at our
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The Bhopal Medical Appeal made a statement about cleaning up at Glastonbury this year.
Michael Eavis has recently become a patron of the BMA and, thanks to this fantastic news, we were able to substantially raise our game at Glastonbury this year.
We had 80 litter pickers this year and we arranged for them to bring certain of the litter back to our marquee, just beside the Leftfield stage, for recycling into sculptures.
The scupltures included various over-sized figures representing Bhopali people collecting water plus one giant sized skull- all built to light up at night.
As an aside, we were also cleaning the hands of passers by with a special organic, chemical and alcohol-free hand sanitizer of our own making.
We were cleaning up Glastonbury. Nobody is cleaning up Bhopal.
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‘Inheritance’, Anna Hudcovicova.
Mixed media, framed. 2010.£250
On sale at Pure Evil Gallery, 100% of sale price goes to The Bhopal Medical Appeal.
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The Antiquarium Wormhole (via ! . © Angela Lobefaro . !)
