Reactor
26/10/2025
The final toast! “To all GHAOS Actors — GHAOS is the system!”
And that was that. Maybe we’ll build it again in another 10 or 20 years. Or maybe it never went away … GHAOS reigns supreme!
“It only lasted four days, but talking to the people who were there a decade later, it seems astonishingly fresh in their memories. They can still hum from memory the not-quite-off-key motif of the Reactor Party Anthem. They can still picture the bearded face and bulbous limbs of Uncle Commi. They still hate Skepticus REX and REXist behaviour of all kinds. For they had achieved Total GHAOS.” — Robert Barry, The Quietus
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Total GHAOS: 20th Anniversary
To celebrate, over 20 days we’ll trawl through the archive and post something we find each day to help make sense of it.
What was Total GHAOS?
On the 5th anniversary we arranged to meet various cousins who had been there when Total GHAOS happened. We asked them to tell us what they could remember. Hours of interview footage was compiled as part an archival exhibition display the following year.
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Total GHAOS: 20th Anniversary
To celebrate, over 20 days we’ll trawl through the archive and post something we find each day to help make sense of it.
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