“Oil is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere”—this is how a line in the Book of the 24 Philosophers, an anonymous twelfth-century text, would read, if one were to substitute oil for the word God, in accord with the omnipotence of our global fossil-fuel dependence. Curated by Anne Szefer Karlsen and Helga Nyman in Stavanger, the Norwegian capital of oil and gas, “Opplevenser av olje” (Experiences of Oil) attempted to graph this problem by presenting an international roster of sixteen artists and collaboratives that either spring from petrostates or