On Friday, performance artist Marina Abramović successfully led the audience in a seven-minute silence at Glastonbury, a British music festival that attracts more than 200,000 people each year, to commemorate “a dark moment in human history.” Later that evening, another artist also performed a surprise stunt: Banksy, who is known for his murals and graffiti works on city streets.
At the Glastonbury Festival, Banksy threw an inflatable raft into the crowd during a performance by British band Idles. guardianWhen the raft incident was first reported, the band didn’t know about Banks’ stunt until after it happened.
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Banksy’s latest work is an inflatable raft, modeled after the ones migrants often use to cross the sea, with a group of dummies on board, modeled after the migrants.
The raft reportedly appeared during the performance of the song “Danny Nedelko,” which explicitly deals with immigration issues and includes lyrics such as: “Fear leads to panic, panic leads to pain/Pain leads to anger, anger leads to hate.”
Banksy typically confirms the authorship of his works on Instagram, but has not yet confirmed the authorship of this piece. guardian A representative for Idles confirmed the news, the report said.
The anonymous artist has created artwork about immigration in the past, and at one point even adorned a boat used to transport rescued refugees with one of his signature motifs: a girl reaching for a balloon that resembles a heart-shaped life preserver.
His latest work comes as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s immigration policies continue to come under scrutiny over his government’s plans to pass a particularly controversial law to deport asylum seekers who arrive in the UK illegally to Rwanda, a country some Conservative politicians in the UK consider a safe destination.
