Barry the Badger, Pete Hunter, Pete Giaconda, ‘Barry and the Sharks’, performance, March 2008. Photo: Deb Weinreb. Courtesy: Kangaroo Kourt. Barry the Badger was entered into a talent show on the BBC and despite talking about nothing forever and doing some recreations of Bruce Maclean’s photographs with three cubes he kept winning and they kept voting for him. Has art finally gone trully popular? No but it was the best attempt by a man dressed in a badger costume to date.