In the summer of 1968 I made a work that I think was the first action\/performance made by a student at Cardiff College of Art. I had been working very intensively on a series of circle paintings in a studio overlooking the waste ground that still surrounded the college. I could also see a roundabout where four roads met and as I watched traffic navigating the junction I could see a metaphor for the way in which life is composed of a series of small, seemingly simple, self-determined actions that when combined and overlapped generate a field of great complexity and indeterminacy. For this action I wrote a score consisting of a series of instructions\u00a0 for 7 individuals, one woman and a group of people gathered in a block. Various bushes, stones and other objects on the waste ground were wrapped or circled with white paint or had arrows pointing to them. There was no rehearsal or try-out for the work. Everyone did what they were requested to do as well as they could – creating a complex interaction that could be viewed by an “audience” on the ground and looking out from college windows high above the site. No acting, in the theatrical sense, was involved – only actions and activities. One aim of the action was to encourage those who participated (including those who watched) to attend more closely to the site – to see how interesting was the waste ground with its plants, rubble, discarded rubbish – a rich habitat for small creatures and passing humans. Extracts from the instructions are given below.<\/p>\n