jump! goes to Dismaland rubberneck report

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Dismaland was Banksy’s ‘Bemusement Park’, an alternative, theme park- inspired art

show. It has just finished its five week run in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset.

Banksy billed it as Britain’s most disappointing new visitor attraction.

jump! scrambled for tickets and duly visited. We were more than disappointed.

Which is a good thing.

This is one of our jump! rubberneck reports. It’s a peep inside Dismaland, a p.o.v. on what’s driving the frenzy and an intro to

Anti-hero Innovation from jump!

As they say in Dismaland, endjoy.

Each week its 28,000 tickets sold out in 30 minutes. Thousands from Britain and Europe queued to get in on the day and demand -

allegedly - crashed their web site. That’s not to mention the media hype generated.

So how come an art show is creating this frenzy?

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Here’s what Banksy says about Dismaland (we’ve paraphrased a little): Dismaland is a theme park with a more appropriate message for the next generation; Sorry Kids. Sorry about the lack of meaningful jobs and global injustice. The fairytale is over, the world is sleepwalking towards climate catastrophe, maybe all that escapism will have to wait. So, are you looking for an alternative to the soulless sugar-coated banality of the average family day out? Or just somewhere a bit cheaper? This is an escape from mindless escapism. Enjoy the latest addition to our chronic leisure surplus; a theme park whose big theme is that theme parks should have bigger themes. Not bad for a fiver.


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Let’s jump in. To a most dismal welcome.

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jump! “Two programmes please!”

Dismaland “You can’t have two. You’re smiling.”

jump! “Eh... Ok. Two programmes please.”

Dismaland “There.”

jump! “HEY, they’re my programmes you just threw on the ground!”

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Artist, Jenny Holzer has created a series of demotivational sound bites for Dismaland.

They’re on balloons, on signs and broadcast on the tannoy in between the strains of 24/7 Hawaiian music.

Private property is the source of

all crime. Ambition is as dangerous as

complacency.

Protect me from what I want.

Abuse Of Power Comes As No

Surprise

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Brutal fun at the fair. Anyone for Merry-go-round Horse Lasagne, a ‘slo-mo’ caravan ride or hooking rubber ducks while exchanging surly remarks with the staff?

Pic: thewston mercury

Pic: asos

Pic: asos

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Art vs. War

Paco Pomet Deitrich Wegner

Darren Cullen

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Jump aboard the world's first bus-mounted museum surveying the role of design for social control.

Admire the craftsmanship of CCTV, anti-homeless spikes and body-worn work place surveillance devices like the Motorola WT-4000

Then pop over to Pocket Money Loans.

Get out of debt with a loan or win a toy after only three late payment charges.

Gavin Grindon

Darren Cullen

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jump! / Banksy collaboration (ahem)

Participating in our very own paparazzi princess chase.

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Ad Breaks

Don’t like the ads on your commute? With these handy

spanners you can replace them with your own ads.

Dismaland artist, Darren

Cullen, plus, it’s believed other Dismalanders, replaced

posters on the morning of a major international arms

conference in London called DSEI.

Here’s what he said about it to

VICE.com.

The arms dealers who are currently slithering through London would much prefer their horrible conference to

pass by without any real scrutiny. By doing something like this, we're able to draw

commuters’ attention to the fact that some of the world's

worst dictatorships have come to London to pick out their

preferred instruments of torture and murder.

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Let’s unfuck like it’s 2012!

Each year we pick a word we think will be a rising theme in the next 12 months.

We spotted this message on the side wall of the Dismaland Castle.

Three years later, we think UNFUCK retains its currency with a new direction, from helping people through a financial recession to a helping them through an ethical one.

In 2012 our word was UNFUCK. Maybe you received our New Year’s card?

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So, back to our original Rubberneck question. Why this frenzy for an art show?

Sure, people want to be part of the hype. There’s a fascination too around the ‘ambush’ nature of Banksy’s art stunts.

But having experienced the show, we believe there’s more to this than a superficial desire to get in on a stunt.

This isn’t your average queue for an art exhibition. It took about six hours for those lucky enough to get in.

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Here’s a jump! point of view.

In the face of ‘big government’ and ‘big consumer’, early mover people want to hack their way to something better...

So the way forward is voting with your feet and ballot paper, marching, ‘dis-liking’ and in Weston-Super-Mare for five weeks, entry level anarchy, disobedient thinking and ethical subversion.

... something fairer, more intimate, more real, more sustainable and, why not (?) more beautiful.

Early movers are looking for anti-heroes who will spark a new wave of ethical subversion.

We, society and the planet, are on a path we didn’t ask for.

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Banksy says: Dismaland encourages us to consider, not just

consume.

The wake up call for us, as brand owners and brand builders, is to embrace what we at jump! call

Anti-Hero Innovation.

We say: Early movers are looking for anti-heroes who will

spark a new wave of ethical subversion.

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Anti-Hero Innovation is innovation that challenges ingrained convention and habit, aiming for a sweet spot of better society, better planet and, better brand results.

If you’re engaged in Anti-Hero Innovation, you’re creating new products, services and initiatives that go against the grain of our consumerist convention.

If you’re doing that, you’re encouraging people to be ‘considerers’, not consumers; citizens, not spectators.

And maybe you’re sparking some badly needed ethical subversion. From the Dismaland programme:

“Some people describe Josh Keyes’ paintings as ‘a satirical look at the impact urban sprawl has on our

rural surroundings.’ Maybe.”


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Anti-hero innovation that turns road kill

furs into fashion.

Petite Mort Fur’s mission is to shift the

$35 Billion fur industry built on the lives of

50 million caged and trapped animals

every year to a paradigm of compassion,

sensibility, and freedom by respectfully

resurrecting 365 million wild animals killed on our roads every year, which

are currently thrown away.

Intermarché ran a hugely

successful campaign marketing

misshapen fruit & veg to

combat food wastage

Anti-hero innovation that

turns an aesthetic

consumer assumption on

its head.

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Patagonia encourage customers to send their worn Patagonia items back for repair, rather than buy a new item. They’re also sending a repair truck to fix up customers’ clothes in situ.

Anti-hero innovation that goes against the consumerist grain of ‘buy new’. Brands steer clear of war

zones, yes? Anti-hero innovation

doesn’t.

Fonderie 47 makes luxury watches and other

accessories from the parts of AK47s . The brand funds the removal of these and

other assault rifles from areas of conflict.

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18 18 18 Find the anti-hero within

Three jump!s to anti-hero innovation

de(fault) 1 subvert 2 hack 3

Find the conventions, assumptions and defaults in your industry, business or brand that could ultimately harm people and environment. Find your fight.

Get ethically subversive, talk to the rebels, read what you shouldn’t… Generate ideas that subvert the ‘default’ you want to fight.

Hack your brand. Build in your ethical subversion ideas and themes. Figure out how you, your customers and the world will be better off after your anti-hero innovation. Fight For Better.



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Fancy joining jump! in an Anti-Hero Innovation playground?

For better brand, society and planet results?

[email protected]

Bettina MacCarvill: +353 (87) 223 7777

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Lee Geraghty (jump! London): + 44 7570 707792

Paul Kelders: +353 (86) 3800787

Ruan McGloughlin: + 353 (86) 650 4360

@jumpinnovation

www.jumpinnovates.com

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