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Dead Good Guides: Cataloguing The Notebooks of John Fox

John Fox (1938-2025) and Sue Gill (born 1940) are two of the founding members of the theatre group Welfare State International (WSI). From 1968 to 2006, WSI focused on taking art out of theatres and galleries, and into the street, working with communities to create site-specific productions, heavy on spectacle. Although mainly based in the North of England (Burnley, then ...


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Time in the Forkbeard World
An Update From Naomi Smyth & China Fish, the 2025 Forkbeard Fantasy Award Winners

Naomi Smyth and China Fish are the winners of the 2025 inaugural Forkbeard Fantasy Award. This is an annual award of £15,000 given to a collaboration of artists to research and develop a new piece based on the archives of Forkbeard Fantasy. China and Naomi are now approximately ...


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Forkbeard at Christmas

By Rosie Smith, Project Archivist: Forkbeard Fantasy

As you may remember from a previous blog, Forkbeard Fantasy were known for their use of elaborate and unusual props and costumes. After a successful touring exhibition of some of these items, they established the Museum of Forkbeard in North...


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The Great Tape Bake Off

Sticky tapes

One of the many challenges we face when digitising audiovisual material from magnetic tape is “sticky-shed syndrome”. Certain types or formulations of tape suffer from this problem that, as the name implies, causes them to literally stick to the components of the playback machine creating a phenomenon known as “stiction”. The friction of t...


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Forkbeard Fantasy – A Life on Tour
A ticket from a Brittonioni Brothers’ performance in Warsaw.

I’m now a year into my three-year long project to catalogue the archives of Forkbeard Fantasy. I have successfully cleaned, repackaged and catalogued the objects, which means it’s time to do the same for the physical documents. Rather than starting with the production material (a gargantuan task that will take many ...


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