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The Endless Village

The Endless Village - a satirical sitcom from General Public, set in an imagined future post-Brexit Britain will be launched on Thursday 29 March at the Aspex Gallery.

Investigating life, localism and trade relations, the sitcom pilot - entitled Banana Day - presents a meditation on future daily life in NFKATUK - the Nation Formerly Known As The UK:

It is 2066, 50 years since Brexit and 1000 years since the Norman Conquest. A devolution revolution has gripped the public consciousness as countries then counties seek political control on a local level - leading to a succession of tribes, small self-sufficient communities and 'endless villages'. The resulting breakdown in global trade renders legally sourced bananas virtually non-existent.

But each year in Kingdom#3, a special community celebration is held called ‘Banana Day’, a time to celebrate the forbidden fruit. Why do Kingdom#3 insist on celebrating the banana, an unavailable fruit with a colonial history?

How will they possibly find a banana in time and what ethical compromise will its purchase entail?




Written and produced by General Public (visual artists Chris Poolman & Elizabeth Rowe), with a cast of professional actors and filmed by Oli Clark - a former BBC director/producer whose TV credits include the BAFTA award winning series Coast - The Endless Village will be presented as an exhibition at Aspex, and in Summer 2018 at Eastside Projects in Birmingham.

Alongside the moving image work, the exhibition will feature props and costumes from the film, archival material relating to the global banana trade, interviews with elderly residents of Sparkbrook (an inner city area of Birmingham) who remember life before bananas, as well as fictional artefacts from life in NFKATUK (The Nation Formerly Known As The UK).

The Endless Village will be on show at Aspex from 30 March - 10 June 2018

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