BANKSY EXHIBITIONS AND PRANKS // DISMALAND, WESTON SUPER MARE, AUGUST 2015

  • Logo for Dismaland, Bemusement Park, temporary art project by Banksy
    Dismaland, 2015, Poster for Banksy, Dismaland: A Family-Themed Park Unsuitable for Children, Weston-super-Mare, England, August–September 2015.
    © Banksy. Reproduced for educational purposes only
    In the summer of 2015, Banksy unveiled Dismaland, a temporary “bemusement park” constructed inside the derelict Tropicana lido in Weston-super-Mare. Described by the artist as “a family theme park unsuitable for children,” the project offered a dark parody of commercial leisure culture, with dystopian twists on the Disney fantasy. Prepared in complete secrecy, the site was disguised as a Hollywood film set under the working title Grey Fox until the opening weekend.
    The exhibition featured 10 new works by Banksy alongside contributions from 58 international artists, including Jeff Gillette, whose satirical “Dismayland” paintings partly inspired the aesthetic. With tickets priced at £3 and limited to 4,000 visitors per day, the park attracted 150,000 people over its five-week run. After the closure, the materials from the site were repurposed to build shelters in the Calais Jungle, where Banksy also left murals in solidarity with displaced communities.
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  • “I guess you’d say it’s a theme park for the disenfranchised.”

    – Banksy

    With its dystopian atmosphere, Dismaland rejected the promise of escapism usually offered by theme parks, instead placing issues like poverty, surveillance, and environmental collapse front and centre. The project’s afterlife reinforced its politics: materials from the site were dismantled and repurposed as shelters in the Calais Jungle, tying satire to direct action and showing that art could extend beyond symbolism to tangible solidarity.
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