HECTIC APRIL 2010 - Whole House Chaos

I've been looking for a video I made of the Front Room Chaos, but even the computer is 'infected with chaos', so it seems to have disappeared.

 Here are some images:


Here is how the room looked before part of it was cleared to perform with the 100 candles for GAMcG 10th birthday.

Items were piled higgledy piggledy in the kitchen - if you look hard you will just be able to see the washing machine in the background.









More stuff piled in the kitchen, with only barely enough room to access the microwave (top right hand corner)

The sun shining on some of the items that were being left behind - the action was mostly on the other side of the room

A partial passageway has been made through some of the stuff in the kitchen -

Some very basic sorting is beginning into what I will definitely NOT bring to the college, and what I will. (I was giving a modicum of regard to possible family sensibilities)

By the following day, the stuff that I WASN'T going to use had overflowed into the spare room, piled almost to the ceiling.

Notice the curtains are drawn - no point in displaying the chaos in public! - at least not just yet.

Meantime, chaos continued in the kitchen, with only a tiny corner of the table available for mealtimes - 

BUT, it's not all doom and gloom - there is now a small passageway to give access to the washing-machine.

Poor Tony's chair was occupied by another chair, and various items were mixed in with his neatly sorted boxes of screws and tools!





I smile when I look at this picture. These are baking tins in a green mixing bowl. You can see that have haven't had much recent useage. In fact, I think they may have been rusty even before they were banished to the attic.
Guess what, I don't like cooking!




Despite the awful muddle I had created, I was beginning to visualize what the components of the Wrinkley's Playhouse were going to include.

One the back of the Front Room door, I stuck up my plans with blue-tack.


The ten headings I used were as follows:

SOUVENIRS, PERFORMANCE, TEXTS, PERFORMANCE, VIDEOS, LIVE CCTV, HOME, INTERNET, INTERACTIVITY, LOGISTICS

As it happened, I hardly ever referred to these list afterwards, but I think the mere act of thinking through the theory of what would be needed gave me a few markers inside my head which kept me in some kind of order.