Forkbeard Fantasy
The Colour of Nonsense
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performance: duration 75 mins; video documentation above – 76 mins 45 secs
From the original Festival website:
The Colour of Nonsense is a comedy thriller about the making of a priceless Invisible Artwork and the global chaos that follows its theft.
At the studios of Splash, Line & Scuro, Cutting Edge Conceptualists, things have been sliding dangerously downhill of late. Then out of the blue comes a salivatingly remunerative commission for the first ever completely genuine INVISIBLE ARTWORK.
With Forkbeard’s famed mix of visual trickery, film and outlandish story-lines, The Colour of Nonsense explores the never-ending puzzle of how and why people see the way they see, as it takes us on a journey through the wild and ever-shifting borderlands between Sense and Non Sense. As mutinous cartoons throw the Studio into animated confusion, only the Dong with a Luminous Nose seems able to shed light into this chiaroscuro of chaos.
With nods at Edward Lear and The Emperors New Clothes, The Colour of Nonsense, created in Forkbeard’s own 35th year, is a humorously semi-autobiographical piece about the highs and lows of creativity and the paralysis of indecision.
“Forkbeard has enjoyed a long friendship with the NRLA and, with Nikki Milican, goes back even further to her days at the Brillig in Bath. FF in the 1970s were very much associated with what was then called Performance Art. But we drifted away as laws got laid down defining what was and was not allowed to be called Performance Art. FFs good humour, wild invention and (god forbid) accessibility was looked upon with horror by some! Then, in 1983, at The Midland Group in Nottingham, Nikki and the Forkbeards presented The Brittonionis …the Forkbeard identity under wraps. Suddenly we were back in vogue…for a couple of years…” Tim Britton
Funded by Arts Council England
The Colour of Nonsense
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From the original Festival website:
The Colour of Nonsense is a comedy thriller about the making of a priceless Invisible Artwork and the global chaos that follows its theft.
At the studios of Splash, Line & Scuro, Cutting Edge Conceptualists, things have been sliding dangerously downhill of late. Then out of the blue comes a salivatingly remunerative commission for the first ever completely genuine INVISIBLE ARTWORK.
With Forkbeard’s famed mix of visual trickery, film and outlandish story-lines, The Colour of Nonsense explores the never-ending puzzle of how and why people see the way they see, as it takes us on a journey through the wild and ever-shifting borderlands between Sense and Non Sense. As mutinous cartoons throw the Studio into animated confusion, only the Dong with a Luminous Nose seems able to shed light into this chiaroscuro of chaos.
With nods at Edward Lear and The Emperors New Clothes, The Colour of Nonsense, created in Forkbeard’s own 35th year, is a humorously semi-autobiographical piece about the highs and lows of creativity and the paralysis of indecision.
“Forkbeard has enjoyed a long friendship with the NRLA and, with Nikki Milican, go back even further to her days at The Brillig in Bath. FF in the 1970s were very much associated with what was then called Performance Art. But we drifted away as laws got laid down defining what was and was not allowed to be called Performance Art. FFs good humour, wild invention and (god forbid) accessibility was looked upon with horror by some! Then, in 1983, at The Midland Group in Nottingham, Nikki and the Forkbeards presented The Brittonionis …the Forkbeard identity under wraps. Suddenly we were back in vogue…for a couple of years…” Tim Britton
Funded by Arts Council England