Banksy’s latest, at Weston-super-Mare. Be there or be unbemused!
Dismaland: “The UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction”
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I think we should have an Afterword charabanc trip there, as a matter of urgency.
Celebrate dismality.
Brilliant! A few UK chums are planning to go this weekend – if they can get in.
Hopefully, there aren’t any five hour queues like those to get into his ‘takeover’ of Bristol City Museum a few years ago. Weston’s pretty dismal anyway, but rather less so than near neighbours Highbridge and Bridgwater.
I did have a chortle at this, even if modern art is RUBBISH!
Banksy would be insulted if I said it sounded like fun. But I’m sure I’d not enjoy it. In a good way.
Recruiting the staff must have been a nightmare.
“The entire exhibition is staffed by morose Dismaland employees who seem completely uninterested in being helpful or informative. “
That would not be a problem, KFD. Wesson, Highbridge and Bridgwater have a large pool of suitable employees.
I believe you GCU. But would staff of the right calibre have the motivation to apply?
How does one generate interest among those whose core competence is total disinterest?
I was going to apply, but I could barely contain my indifference.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-33999495
A friend told me that Weston is actually Super Meh. So this is something of an improvement.
There’s something unintentionally laughable about these Banksys. The fairground horses being made into lasagne. Like he had to get the thing built just to make that joke – a rather lame, topical political cartoon. So literal. Yeah I get it, the modern world is absurd and tragic. So what? We know that already. Same as it ever was.
Trying to log into the website to seek tickets and getting nowhere is possibly part of the joke
Do we know who Banksy is yet? The internet doesn’t seem to know his name or have a photo. Except the Daily Mail naming him as Robin Gunningham in 2008. If the internet can’t name Bansky with 100% confidence then perhaps the argument that some conspiracy theory cover-ups would rely on too many people keeping a secret needs to be re-examined.
Admittedly the number of minutes I’ve spent researching this subject is less than two.
Weston-Super-Mare v. Eastbourne Borough looks a much better bet tomorrow.
I’m sure i visited Dismaland some years ago, although it was called Redcar back then.
I was rather hoping that someone had recreated Eurodismal from the McBam Brother comic strip.
Still, here they are in Heil Caledonia: