Dismaland: Banksy opens ‘bemusement park’ in England .....Political dark Satire is still alive

[Cidersomerset]

" Welcome to Dismaland.... Have a nice day ".................Bring the family for an
incredibly miserable experience , in the real dystopian world of the NWO. Where
geo engineered war and profits go hand in hand with suffering and poverty in you
local global theatre outlet.

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Dismaland: inside Banksy’s dystopian playground

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Clandestine street artist Banksy opens a theme park like no other. Inside a derelict
lido In Weston-super-Mare, Dismaland features migrant boats, a dead princess and
Banksy's trademark dark humour.

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Dismaland: Banksy opens ‘bemusement park’ in England

By David Icke on 24th August 2015

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Published on 23 Aug 2015


A new theme park has welcomed its first visitors in a seaside resort in the UK.
World-renowned street artist Banksy has created the self-proclaimed 'most
disappointing new visitor attraction in the UK'. More than 50 artists helped make up
Dismaland in Weston-Super-Mare, which is a doom and gloom theme park,
complete with a ramshackle castle, merry-go-round and a boating lake full of
migrants. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6pge

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Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop

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Uploaded on 5 Apr 2010


Website: http://www.banksyfilm.com

This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what
happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop
follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to
capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a
British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly
unexpected results.

One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop
is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By
turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale...
with bolt cutters.

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ITV NEWS....

24 August 2015 at 10:19am

Banksy's Dismaland brings huge tourist surge to Weston



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Banksy's popular new exhibition capped off its Friday with a big, bold fireworks show. Credit: Luke Powell

http://www.itv.com/news/west/2015-08-24/banksys-dismaland-brings-huge-tourist-surge-to-weston/

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Dismaland: 'Queue all worth it'

22 August 2015 Last updated at 14:01 BST

Branded by Banksy as "the UK's most disappointing new visitor
attraction" - Dismaland has opened to the public in Weston-super-Mare.

Short vid on link..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34025948

Doors opened just after 11:00 BST on Saturday. Many queued
overnight in order to guarantee entry into the show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34025948

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This is quite a classic report by a young local mainstream reporter
that has done no research on the exhibition and completely misses
the point of it. I hope he realised after he posted this report and
looked around the park a bit more.

Aprox a min in he says Banksy put out a press release this morning
where he is asked what is the theme of this theme park ? Banksy
says "Perhaps theme parks should have bigger themes " to
wit the reporter says " whatever that mean " ? Straight over
the poor boys head ! ....


Banksy is Back With New Tropicana Show in Weston - Dismaland

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[Selkie]

Maybe someone will create a real-life Itchy and Scratchy Land, the violent-est place on earth?

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[Akasha]

I want an "I am an Imbecile" balloon.

[Cidersomerset]

The End of the Exhibition.....

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Banksy's Dismaland gloom a joyful memory from the seaside

27 September 2015
From the section Bristol

Banksy's Dismaland theme park at Weston-super-Mare

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The gates at Banksy's Dismaland have shut for the final time,
leaving 150,000 visitors to feast joyfully on memories of
something so intentionally gloomy.

It was billed as a "bemusement park" with the anonymous
artist himself describing the pop-up "family" attraction in
Weston-super-Mare as "unsuitable for children".

Some 4,500 paying customers entered every day after it
opened five weeks ago, egged on by hundreds of thousands
of social media postings across the world.

Tourism chiefs in North Somerset predict it brought £20m of
business to the seaside town, statistics that could make any
national arts venue drool.

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Crowds gather to watch an evening of comedy at Banksy's

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A Banksy piece depicting an orca whale jumping out of a toilet
is displayed at Dismaland.

Based in a derelict seafront lido and also featuring work from
Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer and Jimmy Cauty, it was his first
show in the UK since 2009's Banksy v Bristol Museum, which
brought 308,719 people to the gallery and £15m to the city.

"With figures like that he could do whatever he likes wherever he
chooses," said David Lee, art critic and editor of The Jackdaw magazine.

"Local councillors will prostrate themselves when he comes calling."

But fine arts professor Paul Gough, who has written extensively
about Banksy, is doubtful Dismaland will inspire other civic
authorities in the same way.

"Perhaps they work best and with a rather touching poignancy when
the place has a particular personal relationship to Banksy," he said.

"It gives the event that peculiar Banksy mixture of begrudging
affection and droll humour."


Ian Youngs, Arts reporter, BBC News

Dismaland was the art phenomenon of the year.

It had room for 4,500 people per day, and many more probably
would have gone if they could have.In comparison, around 3,500
people per day went to the V&A's record-breaking exhibition of
fashion designer Alexander McQueen in London earlier this year.

And the most popular exhibition in the history of The Tate - last y
ear's Henri Matisse show - had 3,907 per day.

But when David Hockney exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2012,
he attracted 7,512 a day. Which raises the question: who is Britain's
most popular living artist - Banksy or Hockney?


Visit Somerset described it as "a global phenomenon of major importance"
for the area, and in the town itself almost every hotel and B&B bed was
full throughout September.Art producer Kath Cockshaw, who visited the
dystopian display last weekend, said: "I think Dismaland will definitely
help to put Weston-super-Mare on the map at a crucial stage in the town's
development.

"Whether the legacy will be an artistic one I am not sure, but from a tourism
perspective I know people who had never been will return to the town because
of their visit to Dismaland."

Could anyone other than the elusive Bristolian have pulled it off? Mr Lee thinks not.

"No-one else will attempt anything as complex, tricky to organise or as expensive
as Dismaland," he said.

"Only Banksy can muster the resources, financial and material, and mobilise the
necessary droves of other contributors for that."


#Dismaland on social media
◾Twitter: There have been more than 300,000 tweets globally relating to Dismaland.
It has been most tweeted about in the US, followed by the UK and then Japan
◾Instagram: Some 86,500 picture post have tagged Dismaland
◾Google: The peak volume of traffic searching for Dismaland was on Friday 21 August,
the day after the attraction was announced. Also, the top search query was for Dismaland tickets
◾YouTube: Nearly 11,000 videos related to Dismaland uploaded. The official Dismaland
trailer has been watched nearly 2.6 million times
◾Facebook: Declined to provide any stats


Ms Cockshaw added Banksy had a "unique approach to 'art with a message'" and his
work stands "head and shoulders above the rest in terms of impact".

"Artist friends went to the opening and reported feeling incredibly moved by some of what
they'd seen. They came back feeling that it was time for their own art to get political," she added.

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But while lesser-known artists design their own methods to get noticed, David Lee believes
they will never produce anything on as grand a scale as Banksy, who offers an "antidote to
all that clever stuff".

"His art, being facile and superficial, is popular with those who don't generally like the sort
of conceptualism foisted on them by the art establishment," he said.

And his art has set Weston-super-Mare alongside other British seaside resorts long associated
with great painters and artist's colonies, according to Mr Gough.

"Who would have thought crowds would ever be queuing around the block in the rather faded,
but in places still elegant, seaside resort?," he said.

"Not so much queuing the block but lining the beaches. It looked like the evacuation from Dunkirk.

"Banksy must have loved that sight."