Truth Booth encourages truth telling at AANM |Dearborn Times-Herald

Curious visitors arrived at the Arab American National Museum to share their truth in the Truth Booth art installation Aug. 3. The portable, inflatable booth shaped similar to a cartoon speech bubble with the word “truth” on the outside served as a video recording studio for anyone willing to participate. A project of the Cause Collective, the installation will be traveling to 11 locations in Michigan through Aug. 13 with the hope to reach every state by November. Artists Ryan Alexiev and Jims Ricks founded the booth as a way to give all Americans the ability to speak their minds openly and freely on all issues. “The Cranbrook Art Museum suggested that this museum would be a good location for the truth,” Project Coordinator Sami Giarratani said. “There has been a lot of interest from all type of people who passed by the booth.” During its eight hours set up behind the AANM, 13624 Michigan ...

‘The truth is … ‘ art project filming in Detroit now – Aug. 13 | FOX 2 Detroit

Detroit (WJBK) - An inflatable video recording studio will be in Detroit and the Flint area over the next week and a half. Everyone is invited to visit the Truth Booth and make their statements completing the sentence, "The truth is ... ." The responses will be compiled together and used in an art video installation that will be at Cranbrook Art Museum in November of 2016. "Everyone treats the Truth Booth differently," says Laura Mott with Cranbrook Art Museum. "It really depends on the person. Some people use it really as a confessional; others use it as a place to kind of share stories of joy and laughter and compassion; other people really use it as a platform to talk about difficult issues." She says all voices and perspectives are welcome. The booth is actually touring in all 50 states, but Michigan is the only state that will have the responses features in ...

Arts Academy students attend Cranbrook Institute | Macomb Daily

Young artists from around the world travel to Michigan every year to attend the Cranbrook Summer Arts Institute in Bloomfield Hills. This summer students came from as far away as Japan and as close as Fraser’s Arts Academy in the Woods for the program. “This was a phenomenal opportunity for our eight students who attended,” said Dr. Michael Mitchell, principal of Arts Academy in the Woods, a free public high school authorized by the Macomb Intermediate School District. “They were exposed to some of the most creative minds and accomplished artists in the art community. It was truly an experience they will treasure and benefit from for a lifetime.” The institute brings teaching artists who excel in providing individual attention and innovative instruction and talented students together for two-weeks. During the program students stayed on-campus at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the school’s graduate residence halls, attending daily classes that included studio time ...

The Truth Booth at Cranbrook Art Museum photo gallery | The Detroit News

Video interview with Truth Booth artist Will Sylvester | The Detroit News

The Truth Booth, an inflatable video recording studio in the shape of a giant speech bubble, popped up at Cranbrook offering visitors the chance to answer the question "The Truth Is..." Responses will be used in a project on display this November. Video interview with Cause Collective artist Will Sylvester.

‘Truth Booth’ art installation making several Michigan stops | AP

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A portable, inflatable recording studio is coming to Michigan as part of a national tour until Election Day. The public artwork, "In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)," opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on Sunday in Bloomfield Hills. The pop-up booth travels to 11 more locations around Detroit and Flint during the next two weeks. Organizers seek people from varied cultural backgrounds to record a statement of up to two minutes starting with, "The truth is..." The project's artistic team is called Cause Collective. The Michigan stop is the longest on the tour, which Cause Collective hopes will reach all 50 states by November. Cranbrook officials say the footage from the Michigan stops will be complied into a video mosaic to be installed in November at the museum.

Tell it on Tape: Share What ‘The Truth Is’ on Video at DIA Today | Deadline Detroit

The inflatable "Truth Booth," which looks like an oversize cartoon speech bubble, is a portable video studio being used to record personal statements during a global tour now in its fifth year. The stark white isolation chamber was in Philadelphia during the Democratic convention and in Cleveland when Republicans gathered a week earlier. Now it starts a two-week tour of Metro Detroit and Flint. Anyone can be taped privately finishing this sentence: "The truth is . . ." Each person can speak for up to two minutes. There's no cost and reservations aren't needed. On Tuesday, the booth will be on the Woodward Plaza of the Detroit Institute of Arts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., followed by a Wednesday stop at Dearborn's Arab American National Museum from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Six other Detroit stops, listed at the end of this article, are scheduled Aug. 4-9 and Aug. 13. Freelance journalist Tamara ...

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Are you ready to get honest in the Truth Booth? | Detroit Metro Times

As Attorney General Bill Schuette filed another round of charges related to the Flint water crisis Friday, it's hard not to question citizen-government relationship — and more specifically, how 'the truth' sometimes feels difficult to come across. With this depressing reality in mind, we turn our attention today to an initiative that is, well, the exact opposite. Enter: the Truth Booth, an inflatable, video recording studio that's makings its way to metro Detroit and Flint in coming days with the sole purpose of showcasing honest confessionals. Created by artist-group the Cause Collective, the Truth Booth aims to give disenfranchised civilians a voice and an opportunity to share their perspective on world issues and politics. "The project is about hearing the voices of those who are underrepresented," project co-founder Hank Willis Thomas told the Detroit Free Press. "We live in a society that is primarily celebrity-oriented. This is a project ...

Truth booth invites Michiganders to step inside and share their truth | Michigan Radio

Our conversation with Laura Mott and Will Sylvester. It's been a noisy couple of weeks with the political conventions. Speeches. Shouting. Protestors. In fact, it's been a loud, noisy, campaign season that's left our country angry and fractured. However, a lot of voices and viewpoints haven't been heard, and a contemporary art project called "The Truth Booth" is giving people the opportunity to be heard. It all starts this Sunday in Bloomfield Hills, when the Cranbrook Art Museum will launch the Southeast Michigan leg of the public artwork tour, entitled In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth). The Truth Booth is a 14-foot-tall, 26-foot-wide inflatable speech bubble you can walk into and find a video recording interface. There, you are asked to finish the statement "The truth is ..." In the end, the videos will be compiled into a massive exhibition by Cause Collective, the group behind this project. Listen to the full interview above ...

Art that Speaks Truth to Michigan: Cause Collective’s Truth Booth Debuts at Cranbrook | Culture Source

Detroit, are you ready to speak your truth? This city is a place where several layers of truth coexist—sometimes peacefully, sometimes in harsh opposition. Many aspects of Detroit are painted as black-and-white issues, when it is, in reality, a place that contains various shades of gray and a lot of personal stories. Seeking truth is ostensibly the guiding principle of In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth), a mobile recording studio by a team of artists known as Cause Collective that has been touring the world since 2011, offering participants of all stripes the opportunity to record their personal truths. Due to the efforts of Cranbrook Art Museum and their Curator of Contemporary Art and Design, Laura Mott—not to mention a large piece of funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation—The Truth Booth is slated to make an lengthy tour of the region with their Michigan debut scheduled ...