​no man's land ​
across the London Underground & Disused Eurostar Terminal at Waterloo Mainline
Sunday 11th November 2012, 11.05am
10 London Underground Tube Stations,
10 Musicians, 10Sculptures, 10 Poets and 10 Filmmakers​
 1 iconic landmark joining an Island to a Continent
11 simultaneously live events across central London​

​​​​​ through a one-off live performance, no man's land invited the public to consider why we all hold the opinion we do on conflict and war​

​ 7 months in the preparation this project has been deliberately blighted with bureaucracy, boundaries and barriers,
the performance reflects on how society functions, how events unfold, how the actions of the individual ripple out
100 years ago life for many in the West was developing even faster than today, ​
invention and innovation were creating opportunity, optimism and anticipation​
yet society was walking blindly towards a gathering storm, a storm nobody could ever have imagined...​
From ‘In Parenthesis’, by David Jones, sent to fight in France with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 1915
"We doubt the decency of our own inventions, and are certainly in terror of their possibilities. That our own culture has accelerated every line of advance into the territory of physical science is well appreciated-but not so well understood are the unforeseen, subsidiary effects of this achievement. We stroke cats, pluck flowers, tie ribands, assist at the manual act of religion, make some kind of love, write poems, paint pictures, are generally at one with that creaturely world inherited from our remote beginnings. Our perception of many things are heightened and clarified."
David Jones, (2010), In Parenthesis, Preface xiv, first published 1937, Faber & Faber, London
Photo: Bran Jones, Performer Duncan Menzies
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