{"id":312,"date":"2003-11-27T11:03:29","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/11\/27\/british-artists-bush-go-home\/"},"modified":"2003-11-27T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2003-11-27T15:03:29","slug":"british-artists-bush-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/11\/27\/british-artists-bush-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"British Artists: Bush, Go Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a393'><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/news\/2003\/11\/1660223_comment.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ion\/bushtate.jpg\" height=\"409\" width=\"265\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anti-war protesters literally spelled out their message to the US President tonight &#x2013; Bush Go Home. The direct statement was made shortly before George Bush and his wife Laura were due to land in Britain for a state visit. <\/p>\n<p>Around 80 people layed down at the Tate Modern in central London form the three words in the Turbine Hall &#x2013; their message reflected on the mirrored ceiling above. The protesters took advantage of a temporary exhibition, The Weather Project, by artist Olafur Eliasson to voice their anger. <\/p>\n<p>Scores of spectators and participants clapped and cheered as the letters formed into a simple but blunt statement. It did not take long for those round the edge of the demonstration to help form the final word, Now. <\/p>\n<p>One of the organisers, who only wanted to be known as John, said he was really pleased with the way the message had looked. He said: &#x201C;It worked really well, this was designed to get a message across. I think it is a brilliant use of art for the people.&#x201D; The 35-year-old artist and multi-media lecturer from Clapham, south London, said the message was clear to President Bush. <\/p>\n<p>\nA spokesman for the Tate said the gallery was not aware of the protest in advance. But he said: &#x201C;People have been expressing themselves in this space and reacting to the work since it opened in October. &#x201C;We hadn&#x2019;t expected people to lie on the floor &#x2013; it is very interesting to see all the different reactions to the work.&#x201D; <\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the half Danish, half Icelandic artist Eliasson was among the spectators at the protest.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nLa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/exhibitions\/eliasson\/\" target=\"_blank\">instalaci<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-war protesters literally spelled out their message to the US President tonight &#x2013; Bush Go Home. The direct statement was made shortly before George Bush and his wife Laura were due to land in Britain for a state visit. Around 80 people layed down at the Tate Modern in central London form the three words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}