Scenes of destruction and chaos arrived in Falmouth on Friday with looting, vandalism, riot police and a lorry smashing through a fast food store - but luckily all in the name of art.

The scenes of carnage were all rendered in 1:87 models, safely contained in a shipping container as part of the latest project by artist and musician Jimmy Cauty.

The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP) Riot tour - which appeared at Banksy's Dismaland last year - was carried into town in it's 40 foot container by articulated lorry, and plenty of visitors have already put their eyes up to the many observation ports ranged along it's sides to view the disorder that lies within.

Falmouth is the latest stop on ADP Riot's UK-wide tour, described by the artist as a pilgrimage to historic riot sites around the country, from more recent events or more time-honoured ones, although it is not intended to romanticise the role of social disorder.

Leaflets are available explaining each location’s riot, in Falmouth's case in 1810 when the riot act was read to mutineers on the packet ships who had become enraged over customs officers taking goods which they believed were one of the perks of the job.

The leaflet also refers to civil unrest in Cornwall in 1727 when tin miners plundered the granaries of Falmouth, the Cornish rebellion of 1497 and the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549, and the Newlyn fish riots of 1896.

People visiting the piece are encouraged to add graffiti to the container, which is becoming gradually covered as the tour progresses.

The organisers said: "Far from inciting another riot, we hope the experience of the ADP in Falmouth will be a fun, peaceful and thought-provoking one, with the only real disturbance being the constant chatter of miniature police radios, dotted all over the exhibit."

The artist, Jimmy Cauty, co-created the chart-topping band The KLF, and its subsequent incarnation The K Foundation, which became notorious in 1994 for burning £1 million.

The work has been brought to Falmouth with the help of Falmouth Town Council, the Independent School of Art and Falmouth Art Gallery, with art gallery director Henrietta Boex calling it "a bit of a coup for Falmouth."