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Step 2. Plant Your Tree and Flag in Your Yard.


Plant your Flag!
Step 1 - Step 2 - Step 3
 

 
Plant the tree and flag in your front yard!
 
As you plant your flag next to the tree, say:

 "I hereby reclaim this land for nature!"
 
Don't forget to ask your neighbor to do the same.
 
 
 
 


Planting a flag next to a tree in one's home front yard is the performative act that defines this art piece. Using the powerful symbol of a flag, the participant is being proactive in helping rebuild the native tree canopy that one stood on that very place.  It's a reverse conquest, returning a portion of that now developed parcel of land  back to nature. 

The flag also serves to remind the participant *(along with friends and neighbors) of this important eco-action.

WELCOME TO THE
ARCHIVED
RECLAMATION PROJECT WEBSITE:
 2004 - 2013


 
 
 
 

Xavier Cortada's participatory art practice is based at Florida International University.

FIU College of Architecture + The Arts


Xavier Cortada
FIU College of Architecture + The Arts
Miami Beach Urban Studios
420 Lincoln Road, Suite 440
Miami Beach, FL 33139
 
 
 

 Reclamation Project 


FLOR500

 

Native Flags


The Reclamation Project and Native Flags are participatory eco-art projects by FIU College of Architecture + The Arts Artist-in-Residence Xavier Cortada.  

In South Florida, they are presented in coordination with our project partners:



 
FIU Office of University Sustainabiity
MDC Earth Ethics Institute



Copyright 2006-2013 
Xavier Cortada