Pick a Piece from Dismaland and Discuss

Sit down, take a deep breath, allow all the competing voices demanding happiness to subside and have a little think about the art at dismaland. What did you see? What did you feel? Has it changed you in anyway? And ..... Discuss

First up I'd like to talk about the refugee remote control boat lake.

Humans of a certain age from the UK will remember going to fairs controlling boats around a lake, firing off their imagination about seafaring adventures, of one day being rich enough to afford a boat and woo the princess.

Now boats are portrayed as the evil weapon of people smugglers and vessels carrying swarms of humans to countries they don't deserve to dwell within. We hear politicians saying those jumping the border maybe rapists or killers. We hear the Australian government take pride in bribing boats to turn round of forcibly pulling them to international waters. We hear the UK government laugh at the French and be unwilling to help the Italians as refugees look for a better life.

But underneath it all, are real people, in real trouble, dehumanised by politicians and voters unwilling to think about their suffering.

This piece by banksy cuts to the heart of the sick game the refugees are trapped within, dying to escape, control by the whims of those who don't care.

No it's not cutting modern art, but it is heartbreaking and the way rich middle aged men look at it, sums up the fucked up world we live in.

Some of the Diana piece went over my head at the time but in hindsight I see more to it. You are unwittingly involved in it when you have your photograph taken and then knowingly involved when you purchase the souvenir photograph at the end - drinking a cider overlooking the carnage! No differant than buying a newspaper or magazine with paparazzi photographs.

So glad to see someone get what I was driving at

Something else looking back, could be completely wrong, everytime i went for a drink i was asked "do you want to make that a double" "or  something like that, being encouraged to be excessive at a free bar, society of excess, more more more, take take take, didnt take much encouragement tbh, i just thought this is great, banksy sure knows how to lay on a spread, the staff were obviously scripted to encourage us. Maybe he just wanted us to have a good time, which we certainly did, maybe he wanted us pissed so we'd empty our wallets without thought, as you do when theres free drink and art, maybe im just talking shit!

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Good work Bob I think you're most definitely on to something

This is banksys black album