A CLIMATE-CONSCIOUS art collective closed off the Tate Modern at the weekend with a 25-hour live installation in protest against the art museum’s links to oil company BP.

Liberate Tate’s 75 performers took over the building’s Turbine Hall on Saturday morning, covering 1,000 square metres of floorspace with quotes and sketches lifted from dystopian novels. BP is listed as one of the Tate’s major sponsors, with annual donations of £224,000.

Campaigners argued that “the company’s presence in galleries and museums is a stain on our culture,” due to its role in environmental disasters.