James Newitt + Justy Phillips

Self Published

RRP: $50.00 PB 136 pp

The write/here book offers significant insight into the research, process and outcomes of the write/here project. It presents complete and unedited transcripts of several key interviews, workshop images and academic essays contextualising the project.
In March 2007, James Newitt and Justy Phillips staged the exhibition component of their three-year project write/here. For ten days the artists occupied every advertising space in Hobart - replacing the existing advertisements with text phrases. The phrases, reflections of Hobart by the community of Hobart, articulated a selection of the local community’s relationships (both public and private) with its city.
Considered [by the artists] as ‘part community event, part temporary public art project and part media intervention’, write/here established itself in twenty-seven different sites and became the first billboard-orientated art project to inhabit all of the billboards of an entire city.

Author Profiles:
Justy Phillips and Jamesn Newitt are visual artists based in Hobart. Their individual and collaborative practices include works in video, installation and publishing.