China and Naomi are interdisciplinary artists who have been collaborating alongside their solo practice for 15 years. They will use this award to research and develop a travelling performance using low budget sets together with video and virtual reality content to create a dark, nonsensical parody of the seamless virtual digital utopia offered by tech corporations, using Forkbeard Fantasy’s archive as inspiration.

Chris Britton, co-founder of Forkbeard Fantasy, said: “From such a huge assortment of amazing applications China and Naomi’s fun, adaptable, irreverent and relevant, Forkbeardian derring-do approach to developing a new piece of work is a deserving winner. We can’t wait to see the ‘weird and impossible places’ they end up in.”