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why the Dismaland backlash is annoying me

frauleinninja:

puelladespero:

colourofcrumar:

littleratprince:

colourofcrumar:

listen i get it. i get why everyone is annoyed with Banksy and is sort of disowning him. i understand why people are over him. I GET IT.

but come ON.

it’s not just Banksy that’s involved with Dismaland. i’m thinking it was essentially his idea, but he’s using it to host OTHER ARTISTS. from AROUND THE WORLD. he only has about three or four pieces throughout the show.

there are Palestinian, Saudi Arabian, and TALENTED FEMALE artists showing their pieces in the Dismaland gallery and throughout the park that you’re tearing down because ‘Banksy is SO pretentious’ or whatever trendy thing you think you’re submitting to.
Banksy himself said that he’s trying to do something different BECAUSE he realizes that his artwork is the view point of a middle class white dude.

please give Dismaland a chance. please realize it’s not a soapbox for Banksy. it’s an art festival(that is actually reasonably priced seeing as how Damien Hirst is showing there) for artists who are making strong statements.

One of the art pieces there is a woman’s first art piece based on her domestic abuse. Banksy encouraged her to use art to express this. Don’t forget that.

if anyone is curious about what you’re missing out on… here’s a list of the artists that are exhibiting at Dismaland.

http://www.dismaland.co.uk/artists/

if you don’t want to support the show, then at least look up these artists and notice their hard work.

So what you’re saying is, contrary to what tumblr would have you believe, Dismaland is the collaborative effort of several different artists from around the world and not some lone “pretentious” white dude?

Tumblr didn’t bother to research before throwing shade again? Welp.

This post was at the top of my dash and I wasn’t going to reblog it because I thought I didn’t care but then I saw like nine dumb humor posts about it and yeah