lay claim to an island

Chris Kennedy

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Staff Picks

lay claim to an island

Chris Kennedy
2009

13 Minutes

Date
Staff Picks August 1–31, 2023

Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture, and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as a potential home? And how does that symbol function beyond the boundaries of its geographic limits?

lay claim to an island is presented on e-flux Film alongside 349 (for Sol LeWitt) (2011), Towards a Vanishing Point (2012), and The Initiation Well (2020) as the August 2023 edition of the monthly series Staff Picks featuring Chris Kennedy.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.