Proud to be a signatory to an open letter from SA’s arts sector to Adelaide Botanic Gardens calling for an end to #Santos sponsorship of the Museum of Economic Botany. Add your name at https://overland.org.au/2023/01/an-open-letter-to-the-adelaide-botanic-gardens-from-south-australias-arts-community/.

#DropSantos #Artwashing #StopArtwashing #ArtsSponsorship #EthicalSponsorship #EthicalFundraising #CorporateSponsorship #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #FossilFuelFree

How do we know the rich don't like #regulation?

Take the market for #contemporaryart, where they are dominant:
largely unregulated, problems from the #exploitation of #artworkers to the utilisation of art in #moneylaundering, not to forget #artwashing - where art is used to obscure shady behaviour - are widespread

In 2022 a Code of Conduct for Contemporary Art Collectors was launched, identifying such practices as unethical - it'll be interesting to see what effect this has!
h/t @artmonthly

Fossil fuel interests "“engineering a social licence to operate” in the face of growing public pressure...

"Belinda Noble, from ComsDeclare, a group of Australian public relations professionals campaigning for a fossil fuel ad ban, said the deals were about building influence.

“It’s a subtle way of trying to engineer social support, or continued social support, for these polluting products,” she said.

#FossilFuel #ClimateChange #ArtWashing #SportsWashing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/27/fossil-fuel-interests-revealed-to-have-signed-more-than-500-sponsorship-deals-with-australian-bodies

The relationship between sponsorship and climate activism has again been in the news. Players of professional tennis, football, cricket and netball have exercised their muscle recently and pushed back against sponsorship deals for their codes and representative teams by companies operating in the extractive industries.

David Pledger & I in Arts Hub today https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/the-new-climate-in-climate-arts-activism-2592844/

#ClimateJustice #ArtWashing #Activism

the excellent PVI Collective created this code of ethics template for orgs wanting to up their game https://pvicollective.com/code-of-ethics-template/ #artwashing

Hello! #introduction #intro post here.

I am based on Dja Dja Wurrung Country and I work across arts, media, film, strategy and organising with a strong interest in #ClimateJustice and solidarity with First Nations communities & other campaigns for justice.

I have a collaborative #speculativefutures practice with David Pledger & Sophia Marinos & many other amazing people we call #TheThingsWeDidNext (check out some of the amazing Dispatches here) https://www.thethingswedidnext.org/

I work in #documentary #filmmaking as a Producer & #ImpactProducer, most recently as part of team of In My Blood It Runs and The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone docos. (see www.echotango.org and www.unquiet.com.au)

I'm part of the movement to end #ArtWashing #artwash #statecapture #sportwashing and get fossil fuel money out of the arts and sports - most recently supporting Fossil Free Arts NT to boot Santos from Darwin Festival (yay!)

I currently play footy with the Falcs' an amazing club built on the values of diversity and inclusion. Combining sport and politics is a special kinda joy for me! #AFLW

I have two small kids and am still reeling from caregiving in pandemic & all the ways the world doesn't back this labour.

Keen on #art, #troublemaking, #truthtelling radical social #transformation and #rollerskating

Curious to see how this place evolves!

@timinclimate hello I work in arts & film and have a focus on #climatejustice recently doing a lot of work around #artwashing

My latest in #Overland on #ArtWashing #SportsWashing and #FossilFuel #Sponsorship This is how corporations have made themselves appear indispensable. Part of why they seem so is because we are so used to seeing them everywhere, with their logos on our dialysis units, cancer wards, jumpers of our footy teams, sports stadiums and favourite arts festivals. This ubiquity is social license in action. Their visibility and their savvy sponsorship choices are specifically designed to make us think of them as essential to our lives. https://overland.org.au/2022/10/another-step-closer-to-the-end-of-greenwashing/

@cametoulouse

Caption (eg): Mural of pretty face and #octopus has been painted over with the following bright white text, "FOR JUST A MOMENT THIS PRETTY FACE AND OCTOPUS HAVE MADE ME FORGET THAT MY RENT HAS DOUBLED AND THAT MY NEIGHBOURHOOD IS BEING DESTROYED…"

#gentrification #aerosolArt #streetArt #rentseeking #overdevelopment #mural #prettyFace #artWashing #neighbourhood #rent #landlords #Blackstone #stockMarket #lendlease #growth #graffitiArt #protest #urbanPlanning #housing #corruption