IN PURSUIT OF A WONDERFUL NOTHING SC

A hilarious and experimental graphic novel from the award-winning comedic performance and video artist Kim Noble.

In Pursuit of a Wonderful Nothing is a fragmented odyssey of artistic survival and longing. Reconstructed through hand-drawn illustrations, artefacts and photographs, cult performance and autobiography, it traces the journey through the everyday theatre of Kim Noble’s life. As his art world escapades spiral from a gallery in Helsinki to hardware stores in London and a desolate English beach, romance fizzes and reality unravels.

Here, fantasy and fact tangle in hand-drawn chaos, and the book itself becomes an artefact—proof of an unreal real life. At once absurd and touching, Kim Noble’s journey is less a memoir and more a treasure hunt through the weird tides of love, loneliness, and the art of staying afloat. And in the margins of the page lurks a sardonic cephalopod, who crumples the story with inky interruptions and astute commentary on the unfolding adventures.

Kim Noble is a London-based performance and comedic video artist whose provocative and darkly funny work blurs the boundaries between comedy, theatre, and visual art.

Kim Noble’s multi-disciplined approach has led him to work across theatre, TV, film, art and comedy. He was one half of Perrier Award-winning, BAFTA-nominated experimental art-comedy duo Noble and Silver. His work uses a provocative and humorous style to expose the human condition: notions of death, sexuality, gender and religion are picked at with dry comedic use of tragedy meshed with absurdity.