Art festival, entertainment and anarchism
"Dismaland" (from a dismal - "depressing, gloomy") - established as an antagonist of the popular Disneyland with toy castles, colorful rides, cotton candy and joyful children. The park is located on the territory of an abandoned swimming pool "Tropicana" in Weston-super-Mare, close to Bristol.
The exhibition was prepared anonymously. City officials cheated local residents, saying that construction work around the old pool - is the construction of scenery for the film. films on IMDb page was even created. Everything was kept entirely secret until the opening.
In "Dismaland" exhibits works by 58 artists who took Banksy, including the creation of Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer. The works on display are traditional amusement theme parks, satirically reinterpreted through the prism of contemporary artists.
In the center, as befits a classic Disneyland Park, is a Cinderella princess castle. It is dilapidated and abandoned. There herself a princess, but dead. Pumpkin carriage-inverted and hung limply from her Cinderella, immersed in an ocean of flashbulbs - a direct reference to the death of Princess Diana.
"Dead Princess is complete only when it is surrounded by staring at her wide-eyed crowds with cameras. Or you can take a picture of her surprised expression on his face when jumping from bowl orca"
Also, as in the traditional parks, visitors are offered, such as a fishing rod to catch a floating rubber ducks, ducklings only smeared with black paint (oil). During the capture of the prize - fish cakes in a plastic bag.
As a reminder of the crisis of migrants - the boat with dolls, some of them fell into the water ... There is still a sculpture of the Little Mermaid glitch and graffiti Mickey Mouse, declaring that "life is not always a fairy tale."
These are some of the exhibits.
