Banksy trolls Disneyland

Muahahaha

Banksy's Dismaland: 'amusements and anarchism' in artist’s biggest project yet,Art show on 2.5-acre seafront site in Weston-super-Mare features Cinderella crash scene, post-riot model village and cardboard airport security.
He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why.

Banksy’s new show, Dismaland, which opened on Thursday on the Weston-super-Mare seafront, is sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-opening and occasionally breathtakingly shocking.

The artist’s biggest project to date had been shrouded in secrecy. Local residents and curious tourists were led to believe that the installations being built in a disused former lido called Tropicana were part of a film set for a Hollywood crime thriller called Grey Fox.

The name is a play on Disneyland, but Banksy insisted the show was not a swipe at Mickey and co. “I banned any imagery of Mickey Mouse from the site,” he said. “It’s a showcase for the best artists I could imagine, apart from the two who turned me down.”

Works by 58 handpicked artists including Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer have been installed across the 2.5-acre site. Julie Burchill has rewritten Punch & Judy to give it a Jimmy Savile spin. Jimmy Cauty, once part of the KLF, is displaying his version of a fun model village complete with 3,000 riot police in the aftermath of major civil unrest.

Across the way is a “pocket money loans” shop offering money to children at an interest rate of 5,000%. In front of its counter is a small trampet so children can bounce up to read the outrageous small print drawn up by artist Darren Cullen.

Cullen said he had met so many people taking out payday loans who were well aware of how ridiculous the payback was. “As the welfare state is retreating the market is filling the gap in a really predatory way. People are being saddled with insane amount of debt for years.”

Like other artists involved, he has never met Banksy, but he was delighted to be part of the show.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/20/banksy-dismaland-amusements-anarchism-weston-super-mare


120,000 tickets on sale at £3 each, with bands and DJs playing at weekends
http://www.dismaland.co.uk/events/

The Cinderella crash scene comes complete with papparazzi taking photos of it which is an obvious reference to the death of Princess Diana. He also has remote control boats on a small pond that the public can play with- only thing is they're full of migrants from across the Med.

Funny and perplexing as it all may seem I'd say it'll be one of the biggest art exhibitions in the UK this year. He held one in Bristol in 2009 and it was packed solid for 12 weeks with 300,000 people attending

frozenfrozen

clickbait titles will be the death of me. is everything trolling now?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jail him

Mesrine65

Banksy...pfft

Crass' cover artists Gee Vaucher/David King were doing as much with their work back in the late 70's, early 80's IMHO

https://www.google.ie/search?q=crass+cover+artist&biw=1164&bih=817&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCwQsARqFQoTCPjZv6-IuMcCFSOC2wodxwgG7A&dpr=1.1

The_Valeyard

The burned out Disneyland would be a nice addition into Fallout 4.

Agent Coulson

Banksy has become as corporate as Disney these days.

I wonder who he really is trolling with the millions he is making.

fleet_admiral

How does he find the time to do that art and run the United Nations?

SEPT 23 1989

I feel sorry for him

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Banksy is a great chap, he went out of his way to stay anonymous during his (early) career and grow it more organically.

If only the KimCardagain/Jenner/CharlotteChurch types that fill the daily global news feeds had 1% as much talent (other than amateurish phone-based photography using full-length mirrors).

D' Hurst on the other hand is a commercial vulture. 'colourful dots on canvas' - hardly carrying any deep socio-economic semiotics for discussion is it?

The Backwards Man

Do as I say, not as I do eh?

The following are strictly prohibited in the Park – spray paint, marker pens, knives and legal representatives of the Walt Disney Corporation.

http://www.dismaland.co.uk/

Birneybau

Please check the definition of trolls/trolling.

Birneybau

Brody Eager Backbone wrote: »

Banksy is a great chap, he went out of his way to stay anonymous during his (early) career and grow it more organically.

If only the KimCardagain/Jenner/CharlotteChurch types that fill the daily global news feeds had 1% as much talent (other than amateurish phone-based photography using full-length mirrors).

D' Hurst on the other hand is a commercial vulture. 'colourful dots on canvas' - hardly carrying any deep socio-economic semiotics for discussion is it?

Charlotte Church? Hip up-to-date reference there daddi-o.

B_Wayne

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Banksy has become as corporate as Disney these days.

I wonder who he really is trolling with the millions he is making.

The tickets are 3 pounds each.... Questions on if he'll even turn a profit tbh.

4068ac1elhodqr

Birneybau wrote: »

Charlotte Church? Hip up-to-date reference there daddi-o.

She her agent hasn't gone away you know (21 Jun 2015 London anti-austerity march & tv mouthpiece). But think the HMRC was glancing over recent accounting submissions, oh oh. I'm still not sure what she does/did, opera singer or something...

Riesen_Meal

B_Wayne wrote: »

The tickets are 3 pounds each.... Questions on if he'll even turn a profit tbh.

Does he really need it at this stage?

He's minted!

4068ac1elhodqr

B_Wayne wrote: »

The tickets are 3 pounds each.... Questions on if he'll even turn a profit tbh.

Good man, sure £3 is great value. Profit not the primary objective perchance. Was charged that once for a glass of water in Hurst's Pharmacy Bar in N'Hill once, crap bar btw.

Birneybau

Brody Eager Backbone wrote: »

Good man, sure £3 is great value. Profit not the primary objective perchance. Was charged that once for a glass of water in Hurst's Pharmacy Bar in N'Hill once, crap bar btw.

We get it, you don't like Damien Hirst. What he has to with Banksy I have no idea.

Hirst's 'The Golden Calf' is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

B_Wayne

Brody Eager Backbone wrote: »

Good man, sure £3 is great value. Profit not the primary objective perchance. Was charged that once for a glass of water in Hurst's Pharmacy Bar in N'Hill once, crap bar btw.

Must be great to be famous but having nobody recognise you.

IRE60

Brody Eager Backbone wrote: »

Good man, sure £3 is great value. Profit not the primary objective perchance. Was charged that once for a glass of water in Hurst's Pharmacy Bar in N'Hill once, crap bar btw.

I saw the pharmacy in The Tate - it's interesting if underwhelming, granted at the time it was beside an exhibition of early 60's Clips of Hungarian soft porn flicks! Very disconcerting!
I liked the review in the Guardian - I'd love to see it and I remember thinking the same of the last one - he's made money, certainly not on this one!
As an artist I like him - and in tandem he's managed to point a finger at certain aspects of life.

Archeron

Birneybau wrote: »

Hirst's 'The Golden Calf' is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

Thank you. I'd never heard of that before and it is indeed beautiful.

Birneybau

Archeron wrote: »

Thank you. I'd never heard of that before and it is indeed beautiful.

To see it in real life. WOW!

Muahahaha

Birneybau wrote: »

To see it in real life. WOW!

Didn't he do a shark suspended in chemicals too? I would have loved to have seen that, it looked unreal. Wonder where it is now

4068ac1elhodqr

He also has around 30 local/international Artists involved including a contribution from the chap that puts animals in boxes (unicorn, in this case). Cameron, N.Ire, Lady Di, Migrants, Seagulls, and a purposeful dismal selfie-wall all feature, what more could you ask for.

This 'subversive escape from mindless escapism' ticks a lot of boxes on many levels. Hopefully it will become a permanent fixture on the abandoned site (in a cheesy seaside town) after the initial 6 weeks. Likely to become the subject of many future MA dissertations, and remain as a favourite with the yoof. Not bad for a chap that left school at 16.

Monets on a wall, in an controlled static environment are all well and good, and available elsewhere, if you like that sort of thing...

mad muffin

I'm so over him…

conorh91

Muahahaha wrote: »

Didn't he do a shark suspended in chemicals too? I would have loved to have seen that, it looked unreal. Wonder where it is now

I wasn't that bowled over by the shark, but the other calves he's worked on are pretty cool.

http://www.damienhirst.com/in-his-infinite-wisdom

The above title 'In His Infinite Wisdom' seems to be a reference to the senselessness of trying to justify the birth of a six-legged calf, as a way of undermining blind faith in religion, maybe. Or maybe it's because the calf itself seems to strike a pose like one of those multi-limbed Indian deities. Pretty cool piece though, whatever the explanation, or none.

utyh2ikcq9z76b

Any ideas on the best/cheapest way to travel over to it?

Akrasia

Banksy scribbled on my grandmothers wall when he was a kid

She had him out cleaning it up with turpentine

Does anyone want to buy a piece of faded floral print wallpaper that used to have banksy original art crayoned on it?

nullzero

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Banksy has become as corporate as Disney these days.

I wonder who he really is trolling with the millions he is making.

Yeah I liked him better before he was successful.

Muahahaha

Rylan Calm Hairstyle wrote: »

Any ideas on the best/cheapest way to travel over to it?

Bristol would be the best spot to fly into, followed by Cardiff. I was thinking of popping over for a weekend in Sept as Bristol is a nice city, Bath is just down the road too. Problem is getting tickets for the show, it seems the website crashed several times.

4068ac1elhodqr

1/2 mile queue yesterday with only 1,000 managing to get in.
Could be a cash cow (for tourism anyway) if extended for longer than 6 weeks.

Guy:Incognito

Disney land Paris should do ok out of the ads being generated in the thread anyway:-)