I WAS HERE was moved to Side Street Projects on June 1st, where it will be installed until January 2009. The island encourages people to venture into public land and participate in actions and events that explore the fair use* of public space and draws connections between public and private space.
The island will be the site of discussions and projects while it is installed at Side Street Projects. One June 14, for the opening reception, tomato plants along with other productive plants will be installed on the traffic island and cared for by the local community as part of the LOVE APPLES project, which is a collaboration with Fallen Fruit. In September, a new crop will be planted.
Side Street Projects is a Public (art) experiment that was founded in 1992 by Karen Atkinson and Joe Luttrell as an artist-run, non-profit organization that helps visual artists negotiate the baffling terrain of the contemporary art world with a wide array of unusual programs and practical services that help artists roll up their sleeves and do things themselves. Side Streets projects is currently in-residence at 730 North Fair Oaks Avenue in their new mobile headquarters: a pair of solar-powered vintage travel trailers originally built by J. Paul Getty (seriously).
I WAS HERE - Background
*To exercise our first amendment rights
