Working collaboratively with communities is a recent phenomenon, which upends the notion of the artist working individually within a rarified context. Collaborating with “non-art world” communities expands the creative potential of art making as it incorporates many different experiences, stories, points of view, and ways of seeing. Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life is one such collaborative project, consisting of 14 public works permanently mounted across Durham, North Carolina. The works were generated with participation from students in Brett Cook’s “Recognizing Different Worlds: Art, Documentary, and Social Change” Spring 2008 class and hundreds of members of the broader Durham area community. The related exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University documents the collaborative process of making the various permanent public works, as well as artifacts from the social collaborations that took place across the community. The exhibition also includes a documentary video on the multi year project, a selection of Brett Cook’s individually crafted objects, and a variety of collaborative works that visitors to the galleries are invited to help to complete.
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Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, Durham North Carolina April 25, 2008 - October 26, 2008