See a marvelous story from the June 2009 Culture Pour Tous newsletter about The Encampment, a traveling public art installation about mental disability. In 2006, writes Michel Lefebvre, Thom Sokoloski and Jenny McCowan (Studio SM) organized a huge outdoor installation on the theme of mental health. The Encampment consisted of an assemblage of tents, each containing a mini-installation created with the participation of the public and presenting poignant testimonies or stories of intellectual disability and the lives of those affected by it. They recruited “creative collaborators” who would research a story, testimony or fact related to mental illness and use found objects to present this story inside a tent. That year, 68 tents were set up in Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park; in 2007, The Encampment and its process moved to Roosevelt Island, N.Y.; in 2008, to Major’s Hill Park, Ottawa. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham