Cause Collective: In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth)

As part of Hank Willis Thomas’s solo exhibition The Truth Is I See You, on view at MetroTech Commons, Public Art Fund brings In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth), Thomas’s collaboration with Ryan Alexiev and Jim Ricks of the Cause Collective, to Downtown Brooklyn at four moments from August 2015 to May 2016. The Truth Booth is a mobile interactive video recording booth that has been presented in cities around the world, from Cape Town, South Africa, and Bamyan, Afghanistan, to Galway, Ireland, and Cleveland, Ohio. Members of the public are invited to enter the work and finish the statement “The truth is . . . ” while looking into a camera. These two-minute responses will be compiled by the artists as part of the ongoing global project.

Recording our local communities’ responses to this universal idea, The Truth Booth will be presented:
-August 4, 12 to 8pm at MetroTech Commons
-September 26, 12 to 8pm at Atlantic Terminal Plaza
-October 15, 12 to 8pm at MetroTech Commons
-May 8, 12 to 8pm at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park (located near the entrance to the Ferry; enter the park at Furman and Old Fulton Streets and walk straight west toward the water and the Manhattan skyline)

Please note: all dates are subject to change based on weather conditions

Hank Willis Thomas: The Truth Is I See You is on view at MetroTech Commons, Downtown Brooklyn, August 4, 2015–June 3, 2016.

This video features selections of past recordings, and the responses are as diverse as the people who have participated.