The Island of Lost Conceits, 2010, 30:00 min

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A performance at La Galleria, New York City, as part of the exhibition To Believe. Actors, embedded in the audience, used text from literary sources that describe an island utopia (Washington Irving’s The Enchanted Island, Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun, Francis Bacon’s The New Atlantis, Thomas More’s Utopia, Paul Gauguin’s Tahiti Journal, Edgar Allan Poe’s Island of the Fay).