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Post by IggyWiggy on Aug 25, 2015 8:08:37 GMT
I remember my mom being hungover and throwing up while I was having my picture taken with a Disney character. yay childhood! That sounds dismal. Do you still have the photo? I got both my feet run over by the family car on one holiday. With all my family inside it at the time. Yay childhood! Thank goodness for clown shoes |
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Post by ouroboros on Aug 29, 2015 22:01:55 GMT
I'm Not going to pick a single piece.Easy to read too much into something that more oftyen than not, is a one liner
I am however going to praise the concept, the incessant sub spongebob muzak and the staff. Big thanks to the staff for making the whole thing utterly unforgettable. I could make a crass comparison with disneyland employees - where the suited staff are not allowed to talk, whilst the uniforemed staff have to bound around, seemingly smashed on smiley mormon crack and uppers. Whereas the dismaland crew were obstructive, sarcastic and piss taking.
A very British concept
Perfidious Albion
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Post by Dr. Plip on Aug 29, 2015 22:17:21 GMT
I loved the Jenny Holzer tannoy announcements. Possibly because they gave you a brief moment of respite from the music in the park, but I thought they were excellent. Having a child read them was a nice touch.
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Post by ouroboros on Aug 29, 2015 22:46:41 GMT
Now what I did note, eas the lack of rats. I would expected more, at this is the granted leitmotif of the genre.
What I did feel, was that the place of the rat and to the subsequent inherent subersion that is either implicity or explicitly with the rat andsuggested from the placement itself, was replaced at Dismaland. Replaced with low level, seeping, gelling subversion and disconcerting ephemeral whispers at every corner.From the shitty games you cannot win, to the scrawled notes at opportune places, through to the shitty puppet show, with its adidas clad horrors dancing to crappy music on a bomb site.
it was an entertainment
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Post by Dr. Plip on Aug 30, 2015 9:54:04 GMT
It's not one piece, but one of my favourite things in Guerilla Island was the gallery tent of protest art/banners. I got upset at one point when a guy joked and laughed at a piece about the children of Gaza, but there are a lot of strong images and messages in there. Quite overwhelming depending on your mood, but it's refreshing to see protest imagery that isn't just an advert for a print release.
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Post by mikeydread on Aug 30, 2015 14:47:10 GMT
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Post by Dr. Plip on Aug 31, 2015 6:55:25 GMT
Shrigley's Imbecile Balloon. Has anyone else thought that apart from proving you're an imbecile for spending £5 on a balloon from a theme park, you're also helping to deplete the Earth's finite supply of Helium. Helium is used in manufacturing, science and medicine, particularly in MRI scanners. These scanners are ever so helpful for detecting and locating a wide variety of illnesses and conditions. You yourself may have had an MRI scan or probably know someone that has. While they are now experimenting with the next generation of scanners, cooled without the use of Helium, right now, we need Helium. It is still being extracted and there might be plenty of it for our generation, but it is in finite supply. So perhaps we would be imbeciles just to squander such a valuable resource on balloons? Read more here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24903034 (or just Google shit?)  |
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