I WAS HERE is a traffic island sculpture+activity in a show called Right In Public that navigates the flow between the works in Highways Performance Space & Gallery (an artist’s personal journey and names of AIDS victims permanently written on the gallery floor). The intention is to transform how we view writing in public, whether that be on a school desk, building or boulder in the mountains and regardless of who did the writing.

On Sunday, March 9, Islands of LA will conduct an activity in Highways and on a traffic island in Santa Monica.  Clinton Bopp and a representative of the Act Up/LA installation will join us for this activity.  Part of the activity will happen within Highways, and the rest will take place on a traffic island nearby.  There will be a confab about writing and public identity and a workshop on making stencils where everyone will make/install their own temporary sign on a traffic island. UPDATE: the portion of this activity on the island will be a walking activity.

The intention is to transform how we view writing in public by engaging people in becoming active participants in creating public space, for a brief moment, on a traffic island.