Photo courtesy of The Cause Collective.
This exhibition is the culmination of a two-week project involving The Truth Booth, a portable, inflatable video recording studio in the shape of a giant speech bubble developed by The Cause Collective. The booth toured eleven locations in Metro Detroit and Flint, Michigan, in the summer of 2016.
At each location, participants had up to two minutes to record a statement starting with the words, “The Truth Is…”. The recorded results of this project, numbering nearly one thousand, have been used to create an ambitious 60-foot-wide video installation. Accompanying the video will be documentation of the regional Truth Booth tour by photographer Corine Vermeulen (a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art) and video by Detroit-based filmmakers The Right Brothers.
The exhibition will also include a participatory room by The Cause Collective allowing museum visitors to write their own responses to the question “The Truth Is…” on helium-filled speech-bubble balloons.
The Truth Booth is an opportunity to create conversations among residents who inhabit the same geographic region, and expand our collective understanding of how the city defines what is real, authentic, valuable or true.
Cranbrook Art Museum will host public screenings of selections from the exhibition in a variety of locations in Detroit and Flint. The schedule is as follows:
December 20, 2016, 11am-1pm
Osborn Neighborhood Alliance, Matrix Center
3560 McNichols E, Detroit, MI 48205
January 13, 2016 – April 1, 2017
MW Gallery
815 S. Saginaw Street, Flint, MI 48502
810.835.4900
Gallery hours: Thurs-Fri, 11am-6pm; Sat 11am-5pm
February 16 – March 1, 2017
Arab American National Museum
13624 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI 48126
313.582.2266
Museum hours: Wed-Sat, 10am-6pm; Sunday 12-5pm
February 22, 2017, 6:30pm
Play House
12657 Moran Street, Detroit, MI 48212
Date | Location |
July 31 | Cranbrook Art Museum Bloomfield Hills, MI |
August 2 | Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI |
August 3 | Arab American National Museum Dearborn, MI |
August 4 | Banglatown Neighborhood Detroit, MI In partnership with Power House Productions |
August 5 | “For the Love of Osborn” Neighborhood Parade Detroit, MI In partnership with the Osborn Neighborhood Alliance |
August 6 | Sidewalk Festival for the Performing Arts Detroit, MI |
August 7 | The Heidelberg Project Detroit, MI |
August 9 | Rivard Plaza Detroit, MI In partnership with the Detroit RiverFront Conservancy |
August 10 | Hispanic Technology & Community Center of Greater Flint Flint, MI |
August 11 | Hasselbring Park Senior Center Flint, MI |
August 12 | MW Gallery Flint, MI In partnership with the Mott-Warsh Collection |
Cranbrook Art Museum will host public screenings of selections from the exhibition in a variety of locations in Detroit and Flint. Dates, times and locations will be posted here as soon as they are confirmed.
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Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
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