‘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 ...

Here’s your chance…Cranbrook art project looks for the truth…from all of us in metro Detroit | Detroit Unspun and The Hub

There are a lot of people out there telling us the “truth” about Detroit, the “truth” about its neighborhoods, the ‘’truth” about its people, and, given this is an election year, their version of the “truth” about just about anything. Has anyone asked you? Well, the Cranbrook Art Museum is going to. It’s all part of its new art project – In Search of the Truth. It is part of a long-term Cause Collective project by the same name, which began in 2011. Starting this Sunday, July 31, the museum will bring The Truth Booth to 12 locations throughout metro Detroit, Dearborn and Flint. This Sunday’s will be from 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at the museum as part of its Family Day Celebration. The Truth Booth is a portable, inflatable video recording studio in the shape of a giant speech bubble. It has the equipment needed to compile your video responses and those ...

Cranbrook Art Museum asks: Can you handle the Truth Booth? | Detroit Free Press

The Truth Booth — a giant, inflatable, portable enclosure in the shape of a thought bubble — will make its way across Detroit and Flint over the next two weeks. The cartoonish pop-up bubble is a participatory public art installation that functions as a video recording studio. Visitors are invited inside an intimate white space to give semi-anonymous testimonial in two minutes or less. The only directions are to complete the simple thought, “The truth is...” But defining the truth is not always so simple. And that’s the point of this layered, inclusive project. “In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)” was created by the artist-driven Cause Collective and has grown in physical size and scope since it embarked on a world tour at the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland in 2011. The Truth Booth takes the contemporary concept of social sharing and makes it a private and personal matter staged outside of ...

Cranbrook Art Museum Brings “In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)” to Metro Detroit and Flint Next Week

First Stop at Cranbrook Art Museum on July 31 Complete Tour Schedule Below Bloomfield Hills, Mich., July 18, 2016— On July 31, Cranbrook Art Museum will kick-off the local tour of the public artwork In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth). The Truth Booth is a portable, inflatable video recording studio in the shape of a giant speech bubble. A Cause Collective project by artists Ryan Alexiev, Jim Ricks, Will Sylvester and Hank Willis Thomas, its interior is equipped to compile video responses by hundreds of people from different cultural backgrounds as they complete the sentence: “The Truth Is…” The tour will debut on the grounds of Cranbrook Art Museum on July 31 as part of a Family Day Celebration from 11am – 5pm, and then immediately travel to 11 locations throughout Metro Detroit, Dearborn and Flint over the course of two weeks. At each location, participants will have up to two ...

Tuning In with Cranbrook’s Hippie Modernism | CultureSource

The words “hippie” and “modernism” may seem to be opposing upon first glance. The anti-establishment rhetoric espoused by the late 1960s hippies, known for their agrarian practices, flowy outfits, mantras of peace and love and a communal lifestyle, do not exactly scream “modern.” However, in their adaptive and innovative dealings with the era’s new technology and media, these hippies found creative approaches for societal betterment that can be seen in many commonly accepted practices today. The Cranbrook Art Museum’s new exhibit, Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, which is open now through October 9th, explores this tension and eventual reconciliation between what exactly makes the hippie so modern in a 21st-century lens. It is currently on its second stop on its three-city national tour, starting at the Walker Art Center and ending at the University of California Berkeley. The term “Hippie Modernism” is often met with confused questions as what it even ...

Hippie Modernism at Cranbrook Art Museum highlights a struggle for utopia that remains relevant | KnightBlog

If you lack the tolerance for Hollywood blockbusters, here’s a tip to beat the heat in Detroit this summer: Take in “CC5 Hendrixwar/Cosmococa Programa-in-Progress,” the full-gallery installation of a work by Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida. Tucked away in the furthest reaches of “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” at Cranbrook Art Museum, the installation comes complete with gratifying tunes, soothing visual projections and hammocks. Along the way, you’ll have a chance to soak in an astonishing array of materials assembled initially for the Walker Art Center by Andrew Blauvelt; fortunately for Metro Detroiters, the exhibition seems to have followed on his heels as he assumed the mantle of director at Cranbrook Art Museum. The full-floor exhibition is a heady chaser to the massive survey of old and newly-commissioned works by Nick Cave, which was funded by a 2014 Knight Arts Challenge grant, and will be followed by a Knight Arts-funded ...