Ladies and Gentle, THIS is vodka (via ketel one trying to compete with grey goose in the luxury vodka maket) PERFORMANCE ART. 

Sorry Marina ‘Moma’s-Russian-Mail-Order-Bride’ Abramovic, but BP is the performance artist of our age. But you say, “Curators, BP isn’t an individual, it’s a corporation” to which we reply “Exactly.” Bienvenidos to irony-for-irony’s sake kiddos, BP is one step ahead of us all. 

BP doesn’t conform. BP doesn’t care what society thinks. BP doesn’t care what BP thinks. BP is reinventing what an oil company is, BP is reinventing what a environmental organization is. BP had to drill off-shore in order to stop offshore drilling. BP created a meme, a meme to endure, a meme for us all, a powerful meme. It sacrificed itself so we would start paying attention to the environment, so lawmakers would start passing legislation to limit the oil industry, so we would finally listen to the prophet Gore and start limiting our damage to the environment becuase BP showed us what an oil spill can be, what an oil spill can do.

You say: But I thought BP was the bad guy….

We say: You know who the Romans thought was a bad guy? Jesus. What did he do again? Oh I don’t know, JUST DIE for our sins.

Well, we stand here today to say, BP is dying for our sins.

 [Jesus: the ultimate performance artists/meme? Ke$ha: the ultimate irony?] 

You ask: Did BP plan this? Did they plan an oil spill to reveal how oil drilling affects our environment? Did they plan to turn from corporation into natural disaster to reveal the negative extranalites of the American capitalism system?

We reply: Did Marcel DuChamp start making readymades to reveal that ‘art’ had become as bourgeois and commodified as everything ‘art’ was theoretically critiquing at the time? uh, yeah.

The gulf oil spill is BP’s fountain. I hope they do an encore exhibition in the North Sea and offshore Venezuela. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you art….