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Dismaland.

Bournemouth Addick
Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
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I know diddly about art but I think this is a brilliantly funny, thought provoking exhibition parodying consumerism in society...

thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/dismaland/

...or is it a triumph of marketing over substance?
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    It's hard to answer your question without going, but as a big Banksy fan I'd love to go.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    I'd like to see Sleaford Mods there.

    Ideal venue for their style of music.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    Saw it on the news last night. I though the funniest thing was that it is in Weston-super-mare. Loved the model village.
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    Looks interesting, will go if possible (short time frame may make this tricky).
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Henry Irving said:

    Saw it on the news last night. I though the funniest thing was that it is in Weston-super-mare. Loved the model village.

    I have a fondness for Weston as I spent a lot of time there years ago, and it has had some money thrown at smartening it up but it's fair to say Dismaland is a very good fit for the town.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    Looks fantastic. If I were in the UK I would be there like a shot!
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,257
    Banksy used to be cool when he was doing graffiti with a message behind it. Now he's too mainstream and opening his own exhibit about consumerism which you then have to pay to see doesn't really sit with me
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,257
    Banksy used to be cool when he was doing graffiti with a message behind it. Now he's too mainstream and opening his own exhibit about consumerism which you then have to pay to see doesn't really sit with me
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    Bit hipster that Sam.

    Think it looks interesting, wont be arsed to make the effort though
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,258
    edited August 2015
    sam3110 said:

    Banksy used to be cool when he was doing graffiti with a message behind it. Now he's too mainstream and opening his own exhibit about consumerism which you then have to pay to see doesn't really sit with me

    £3.50 I believe it is for a ticket. And out of interest what do you think is 'uncool' or mainstream about this compared to his other work?
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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    It has stewards to protect the work who need to be paid and also the land has to be paid for. Read the link, look at the pictures, the messages are still there.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    I fear my opinions of Banksy are fairly similar to Fiiish's. Ruining my lefty cred I know. Bye!
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    To be honest I couldn't give a tuppenny fig about Banksy most of the time. This looks pretty funny though.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Caught the back end of this and as a Banksy fan will look at going to this.

    I like the idea of a 'riot' taking placing in the model village lol.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,257
    swords_alive said:

    sam3110 said:

    Banksy used to be cool when he was doing graffiti with a message behind it. Now he's too mainstream and opening his own exhibit about consumerism which you then have to pay to see doesn't really sit with me

    £3.50 I believe it is for a ticket. And out of interest what do you think is 'uncool' or mainstream about this compared to his other work?
    I just think the allure of stumbling across an original banksy tucked away on a back road in London has been lost, the entire point of graffiti art is that's its somewhere its not really meant to be, having a designated space for it just seems weird. Don't get me wrong I think he is a wonderful artist and some of the pieces he has made are poignant and funny, but I think the huge exposure stuff like this gives him reduces the impact of each message
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772
    man_at_milletts said:

    Caught the back end of this and as a Banksy fan will look at going to this.

    I like the idea of a 'riot' taking placing in the model village lol.

    Suspect the artist involved was influenced by the Chapman Brothers.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    Great big art. Loved the migrants packed into biscuit tins boats heading for Dismaland.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    sam3110 said:

    swords_alive said:

    sam3110 said:

    Banksy used to be cool when he was doing graffiti with a message behind it. Now he's too mainstream and opening his own exhibit about consumerism which you then have to pay to see doesn't really sit with me

    £3.50 I believe it is for a ticket. And out of interest what do you think is 'uncool' or mainstream about this compared to his other work?
    I just think the allure of stumbling across an original banksy tucked away on a back road in London has been lost, the entire point of graffiti art is that's its somewhere its not really meant to be, having a designated space for it just seems weird. Don't get me wrong I think he is a wonderful artist and some of the pieces he has made are poignant and funny, but I think the huge exposure stuff like this gives him reduces the impact of each message
    Most of the exhibits/installations are not by him, he is more of the curator/creator from what I understand, Sam.
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    My Daughter is heading to Weston Super Mare as we speak. She is very heavily into Graffiti Art. Personally I think it is nothing short of Vandalism.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Graffiti is great both as an artform and a sociological phenomenon, but Banksy is a shit, shit artist and a self-mythologising dickhead.
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  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Are you Banksy?
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    Leuth said:

    Graffiti is great both as an artform and a sociological phenomenon, but Banksy is a shit, shit artist and a self-mythologising dickhead.

    No he's not.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    No need for this as there's already a bizarre family attraction in the area - Watermouth Castle. Very odd, quaint and strangely crazily British!
  • Numbers
    Numbers Posts: 834
    Thought this was another millwall thread
  • Jensenwasclass
    Jensenwasclass Posts: 835
    Dismaland - Just a complete piss take!
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    Exactly...
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,112
    Leuth said:

    Graffiti is great both as an artform and a sociological phenomenon, but Banksy is a shit, shit artist and a self-mythologising dickhead.

    Name a better graffiti artist we might have heard of.

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    That 'Known' guy who put his signature up across SE London during the 1990s. I'd always get very excited when I saw a new one of his
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    …and he's better precisely because he doesn't make these thudding heavy-handed political points - it's an exercise in geographical reclamation, in assertion of one's presence in urban space
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,112
    Leuth said:

    That 'Known' guy who put his signature up across SE London during the 1990s. I'd always get very excited when I saw a new one of his

    A tag then; I wonder what became of him?

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