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

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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.

Done? Go to step 3.

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

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RECLAMATION PROJECT WEBSITE:
2004 - 2013

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

Xavier Cortada

Artist-in-Residence

FIU College of Architecture + The Arts

Miami Beach Urban Studios

420 Lincoln Road, Suite 440

Miami Beach, FL 33139

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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:

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