In Pursuit of a Wonderful Nothing

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 artist Kim Noble navigates the blurred edges of performance and autobiography, tracing the journey through the everyday theatre of his life.

As his art world escapades spiral from galleries in Helsinki to hardware stores in London, 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.