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HELL GREENWASHING ROADSHOW

My plan is to install an anti-Shell greenwashing showroom inside a single-decker biodiesel-powered bus and bring it to COP26, as well as future protests, festivals and to park outside Shell marketing events/corporate headquarters.

I've already started work on the project but due to one major funding source event being cancelled I now need your help to make it happen.

About me

My name is Darren Cullen, I'm an artist based in south east London where I run the Museum of Neoliberalism and my hobbies include pissing off Shell.

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Due to previous legal threats from Shell (see here) I am running the crowdfunder on my own website to avoid a Kickstarter being cancelled by Shell's lawyers at the last minute, it also means I will have access to the funds immediately since there is not much time until COP26. I understand this is a bit unusual and might not inspire total confidence! But you can see the previous successful crowdfunding campaigns I've run here, here, here and here. Any backer rewards you pre-order below you will receive in November 2021.

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The bus will be based on my 2017 anti-Shell installation, but massively expanded with a dozen or more new satirical, climate-apocalypse and greenwashing related artworks.

After COP26 I intend to tour the bus back south, stopping off at various places (please get in touch if you can host the bus exhibition in your town). The bus will be kept in use as a mobile anti-Shell exhibition for at least a year, hopefully much longer.

I need roughly £10,000 to make this happen. Anything you can order from my shop below or chip in as a donation would be a massive help. Thank you!

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UPDATE 16/9/21:
PROJECT FUNDED!

Thanks to your donations/pre-orders and a grant from Necessity the bus project is now funded and is proceeding at full speed. I have bought the bus and it arrives at my studio imminently to begin the install.

I'm leaving the pre-order and donation options available below as any additional funds will go towards ongoing storage and running costs as well as improving and adding more work into the exhibition for next year.

Thanks so much to everyone who has supported this project!

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The above counter does not include the total of any pre-order merch sales, but they will be calculated weekly and added here.

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LEGAL THREATS

One of the main reasons I'm not running this crowdfunder on Kickstarter or Indiegogo like I have done previously is that these sites are susceptible to a last minute copyright takedown notice from Shell, and on a time-sensitive project like this, that could be a major problem.

In 2018 their lawyers responded to some posters I had in an anti-Shell subvertising campaign by sending me an email demanding I remove any items that could be mistaken for Shell branding from my website, giving me 7 days to do so. After getting legal advice I was advised to go along with their demand, and I fully intended to, but thought I'd to send them a couple of sarcastic emails first. To my surprise, these replies, or maybe the fact I was posting the replies online, got Shell to back down.