Dismaland Banksy Cacophonous Theme Park

[some seeing eye]

Banksy is a UK-homed street artist. This mysterious individual with no real world identity may have participated in Burning Man. If you are not familiar, worth looking up.

And Banksy may be behind Dismaland, a short term event in Bristol UK, a beach town maybe like Santa Cruz plus an arts infusion.

Children's Fairyland in Oakland inspired Disneyland. Disneyland, Burning Man and dark elements are remixed to make Dismaland. But you are not allowed to camp out over night in Dismaland.



"theme parks should have bigger themes"

[spacetime]

Here's what I found searching:

Story told on this badly behaving webpage and this post.
Supposedly, 2001 outside wall of the cafe he did this:

[Savannah]

If I were visiting the UK in the next month, I'd love to stop @ Dismaland . . .

[BoyScoutGirl]

Love Banksy - the art makes me think.

If you watch the video SSE linked, you can see Mike Ross' Big Rig Jig sculpture at Dismaland:


http://observer.com/2015/08/what-is-thi ... nksy-show/ (link mostly speculation)

[Simon of the Playa]

https://web.archive.org/web/20020407111 ... erall.html

[Eric]

I'm moving this over to Open Discussion since it's a better fit.


From the images I've seen, it looks like there's some really cool art there (the castle, the armored van in the pond, the "birds" woman...). If only I had money. And a passport.

[spacetime]

I'm moving this over to Open Discussion since it's a better fit.


From the images I've seen, it looks like there's some really cool art there (the castle, the armored van in the pond, the "birds" woman...). If only I had money. And a passport.

The birds woman is really cool. So is "glitchy Ariel"

[Tin Halo]

And a passport.

I hear you. Haven't had one since I was 14.

[forty_eight]

Some NPR show mentioned Burning Man when presenting about Dismal Land.

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/ ... -of-desire

the bit about the journo only wanting to go to BM (again) if she got paid made me really question the role of media at the event

f#ck those people is what i thought

[Simon of the Playa]

[media]