Tatiyana Jenkins
About
Tatiyana Jenkins is a Posse Scholar, second-year student at Lawrence University and a student filmmaker. As an intended Gender Studies and Video Production double major, she is dedicated to creating social change through her work. She has worked on a series of short films including Triggering Wounds, a short film about gun violence in the Harlem community that was awarded Best Documentary in the Our City, My Story program by the Tribeca Film Institute in 2013. In the future, she hopes to be film director and editor and focus on redefining the portrayal of women. Her 2014 The Power of Words interactive project is titled Truth Booth, by Hank Willis Thomas.
Truth Booth
In Search of the Truth (Truth Booth) is an installation comprised of a touring, portable, inflatable "Truth Booth" that embarked on a world tour at the Galway Arts Festival, Ireland in 2011. The project was created by artists Hank Willis Thomas, Ryan Alexiev, and Jim Ricks of the Cause Collective. The exterior is ironically shaped like a giant cartoon speech bubble with the word "TRUTH" boldly printed on the side. The interior acts much like a photo booth, but serves to compile no longer than two minute video responses from the public. Once seated inside people are invited to record their opinions and thoughts as they finish the statement: “The truth is...”. Throughout this long-term
project the video footage will be compiled and edited into a video artwork. To expand and engage with audiences, movements of the Truth Booth and sample responses will be tracked, edited, and categorized on a website.
Mandela quote: "The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed."