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​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​



 â€‹ 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,     â€‹

           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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