ABSTRACT

The trouble with language is that it is the first barrier between oneself and the world. One can also however imagine language as a bridge, the only way off the small island of one's consciousness and out, into that swirling mass of world. The trouble is as soon as you label something, as you do with language, you inherently label it as something other, something over there, something not me, something else. Actions For And Against Nature, whilst initially conceived as a way of crossing this bridge, is really about pointing at all these labels we have created and screaming 'THERE IS NO GAP BETWIXT US!'. The Actions are for ecology, and against the term Nature, pointing at its problems and the problems it has caused us. We are part of ecology, it is within us and around us, in our streets and homes, in the cities we've built and the industrial wastelands we've walked away from.