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In Search Of The Truth
In Search of the Truth is an international, interactive public art project of a touring, inflatable recording booth called 'The Truth Booth'. The Booth is a 16-foot-tall by 23-foot-wide speech bubble that permits visitors to record videos of themselves completing the sentence, "The truth is...". It was established in 2011 as a collaboration between Ryan Alexiev, Hank Willis Thomas and Jim Ricks. History The project was started in 2011 by artists Ryan Alexiev, Hank Willis Thomas and Jim Ricks. Will Sylvester and, now deceased LGBT, LGBTQ organizer, Jorge Sanchez had joined the project more recently. All are members of the artist collective Cause Collective. In 2011, the project was first shown at the Galway International Arts Festival in Ireland. It debuted in the US during the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in June 2012. The project toured Afghanistan in 2013 in a partnership with :nl:Free Press Unlimited, Free Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Ricks
Jim Ricks is an American and Irish conceptual artist, writer, and curator. He has exhibited throughout Ireland and internationally, including a number of public art projects. Early life and education Ricks was born in San Francisco, California. He started painting graffiti in the early 1990s. He studied photography and graduated from the California College of the Arts (2002) and received a Masters from the National University of Ireland, Galway and Burren College of Art programme (2007). Career Ricks's work utilises appropriation, institutional critique, politics, and humour. He has had solo shows in the United States, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Ricks was director of 126 Artist-run Gallery from 2007–9, curating a number of shows and organizing exchanges with other artist-run spaces. With Stephanie Syjuco, he created knock-offs of work at the Frieze Art Fair in London, 2009. In an ongoing body of work, "Jim Ricks has developed the method of ''synchro-mate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
