Terminal Island
 
 

In the CLUI Los Angeles Exhibit Hall - March 31 -June 12, 2005

From the Spring 2005 LOTL newsletter article about the exhibit:

"The exhibit looked at Terminal Island, of the coast of Southern California, as a sort of organismic, flowing, landscape machine, composed of five separate terminal activities that occur on the island: importation, exportation, excretion, deportation and expulsion. As the center of the largest port in the Americas, the nation?s economy flows across its thousands of acres of asphalt, in the form of cubes of material trade, in twenty and forty foot equivalences. It was for this, more than anything, that this artificial island grew out of the ocean, an extension of the continental reach towards the orient."

The exhibit was made possible by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and the CLUI Fund for the Study of Islands and Distant American Landmasses. A bus and boat tour were also conducted as part of this exhibit.

See the original announcement for the exhibit.

 

 

 
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