The origins of the Quiff-tasia derive from a significant change in my personal life, which forced me to sort through all my stuff. All the clutter, the things I really didn’t need, the many strange and miscellaneous small objects housed in vessels randomly placed around my house. This so called junk that I would not get rid – I knew it would be of value one day.
In Life we accumulate so much stuff. Some we keep some we discard. This remaining stuff of life can become a mental and physical burden… Quiff-tasia is a playful response to this excess. Using iconic, and perhaps familiar, props to reference the historic overindulgence, which brought on the French Revolution, “Let them eat cake”, alongside the multitude of modern miscellany, especially mass-produced plastic, which we find hanging around our homes (“well I have”).
The discarded becomes the whimsical, the frivolous. Quiff-tasia aims to encourage the audience to participate to be part of the performance and to share the burden. To take part in a group ritual re-imagining and giving new life to these once loved, unwanted and ignored objects. The audience members become liberators!
Mandy Roberts 