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\tOn Friday, performance artist Marina Abramovi\u0107 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.<\/p>\n
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\tAt the Glastonbury Festival, Banksy threw an inflatable raft into the crowd during a performance by British band Idles. guardian<\/em>When the raft incident was first reported, the band didn’t know about Banks’ stunt until after it happened.<\/p>\n \t\trelated articles<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n \tBanksy’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.<\/p>\n \n \tThe 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.”<\/p>\n \n \tBanksy typically confirms the authorship of his works on Instagram, but has not yet confirmed the authorship of this piece. guardian<\/em> A representative for Idles confirmed the news, the report said.<\/p>\n \n \tThe 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.<\/p>\n \n \tHis 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
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