Right in Public invites us to reconsider writing in public and the relationship of this to personal identity.

What a cacophony of words - from business, government, religion, art, politics - we find plastered onto the concrete, glass, steel and asphalt. These mighty words create the place and time we live in. They are our city...and our city has learned.

The show, Right In Public, includes a permanent installation from Act Up/LA, a personal journey from an artist, and a traffic island installed by Islands of LA that navigates the flow between those two works.  The show invites us to reconsider how we look at writing in public and the relationship of that to personal identity.   Updates:

Journey of an Artist is Clinton Bopp’s personal journey as an artist on the streets that originally came from New Zealand. The installation reflects his experience as a peripatetic artist working in a variety of mediums from graffiti writing to installation, culling the narratives of the people that surround him, from Mauri to Cholo.  
 
I Was Here is an installation+activity by Islands of LA, which is revitalizing public space by turning traffic islands into territories of art that generate cultural interchanges.  The traffic island installation asks us to consider how we view and utilize public space and our habit of writing in public, whether that be on a school desk, building or boulder in a forest.
 
On the 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 where 18th St. and Olympic meet. 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. 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.
 
For updates on the March 9th activity or to comment on the activity, please visit the site:www.islandsofla.com/iwashere.html