Join us for The CAUSE COLLECTIVE ongoing project In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth), a giant inflatable speech bubble and video recording booth that has traveled the world and will soon make a stop in Sumter County. The Coleman Center for the Arts and Larkin Restaurant & Deli will host the sculpture Thursday, September 6, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m..
In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth) is an interactive project featuring a 15-foot-high speech bubble. Inside the booth, participants are invited to make a two-minute video responding to the open-ended prompt “The Truth is…” The resulting videos will be compiled, edited, and accessible at truthbooth.com and in a documentary film to be screened at the Coleman Center in York. The ultimate goal of the project is to capture Sumter County’s definitions, confessions, and thoughts on the truth.
“This project is not only a public art tour, a website, and a documentary video project—the Truth Booth is also a generosity project,” explains Cause Collective co-founder Hank Willis Thomas. “The goal is to provide Americans with a safe space to share their thoughts, ideas, dreams . . . or anything that inspires them.”
This #FREE event is the second stop on a four-part tour, which has been generously supported by the Alabama State Council on the Arts and The Educational Foundation of America (theefa.org).
Come out and speak your truths, Sumter County! The Coleman Center would like a diverse portrait of the county and its people, and for them to join an important global conversation.
Additional dates and organizations include:
September 5, 2018 – Pike School of Art in McComb, MS
September 7, 2018 – Uniontown Public Library in Uniontown, AL
September 8, 2018 – Arts Revive in Selma, Alabama
In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth) is a part of For Freedoms, a platform for greater participation in the arts and civil society. Inspired by American artist Norman Rockwell’s paintings of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (1941)—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear—For Freedoms Federation uses art to encourage and deepen public explorations of freedom in the 21st century.
The CAUSE COLLECTIVE is a team of artists, designers and ethnographers creating innovative art in the public realm. Their projects explore and enliven public spaces by creating a dynamic conversation between issues, sites and the public audience. By exploring ideas that affect and shape society, we seek to add the “public” back into public space and art.
For more information please contact the Coleman Center for the Arts at info@colemanarts.org or (205) 392-2005.