Two things not normally associated with libraries: noise and chaos. No wonder, then, that the lady who stepped innocently into the lift at Manchester Central Library on Monday morning looked somewhat startled to be sharing the glass-walled elevator with a man in a paper boiler suit instructing a woman in a hi-vis tabard to answer his questions as loudly as possible: What is the last book you borrowed from the library? What is the best short story you have ever read? What word do you say most often each week? Like a true Brit, however, she chose to pretend it wasnt happening, pressed a button and turned the other way.
She had unwittingly become part of Chaos to Order, a suitably ramshackle takeover of Manchesters grade II*-listed gem curated by local band Everything Everything. The man in the boilersuit was Jack Howson, part of an art performance duo called Dumblove. They are colonising the librarys lifts between 11am and noon each day this week to write a story with the help of anyone willing to join them in the elevator and don a luminous waistcoat: workwear suitable for the serious task of story construction, as Howson explained.
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