An interchange is a place or thing where there can be an ongoing alternating or sharing (a constant back and forth, collaboration, participation). An exchange is a one time trade, which can happen within the context on an interchange (like people exchanging trains at a cross-platform interchange).
Islands of LA uses art on traffic islands to "generate cultural interchanges" or an ongoing sharing of culture and ideas...where we listen and play, trying on and inter-changing with other people’s ideas as if we are not afraid of the unknown, of imagination, of examination, of changing our minds. As if those ideas were our own.
The intention is to question how we use public space by using art on traffic islands to promote open discussion and inquisitive/critical thinking in public for a brief moment, limited like a traffic island. We visit, participate and then we go away, split up, go to work, whatever. This is not utopic.
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[W]here there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
- Joseph Addison
