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Banksy opens anti-Disney theme park Dismaland with musical guests

by Jesse Locke

Satirical street artist Banksy has once again exited through the gift shop to unveil his most ambitious project to date.

Dismaland is an elaborately designed post-apocalyptic theme park throwing gloomy spins on 18 Disney-style attractions. According to the park’s website, the 2.5 acre seafront site in Somerset, England will include an ISIS-themed crazy golf course, open fires, and grim reapers in bumper cars spinning to the music of the Bee Gees. Instead of Splash Mountain, an armour plated riot control vehicle from the streets of Northern Ireland is equipped with sniper posts, grenade launchers, and a children’s slide into disgusting-looking water.

Alongside visual artists such as Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, and ex-KLF member Jimmy Cauty, Dismaland will also welcome performances from a wide-ranging group of subversive musical acts. The rogues’ gallery includes Run the Jewels, Massive Attack (whose member “3D” was an early inspiration for Banksy in his graffiti days), Sleaford Mods, Savages, Kate Tempest, and DJ Yoda.

Take a spin through the self-dubbed “festival of art, amusements, and entry level anarchism” with a series of Vines below:

[h/t Complex]