True/False Art Installations

Burn This Boat #4 (video installation by Andrea Maio): Where in America can you live rent free and in the open without the worry of trespassing? Is there a place left in this country where you can be a nomad without the scrutiny of the law? Where can you carry your belongings with you and travel from place to place? A group of young people on homemade houseboats follow the current of the Mississippi River and do just that. This is a moment of their lives on the drift. (PS Gallery)

On the Road: Campaign '08: In 2008, one super-geeky Web site emerged as the most important for those obsessed with the presidential campaign: FiveThirtyEight.com. It called itself "Electoral Projections Done Right" and proved itself worthy of the self-flattery with exhaustive quantitative analysis that clearly predicted the ascendence of Obama. Brett Marty, a photographer and filmmaker, barnstormed the 2008 campaign trail with blogger Sean Quinn as the site's press photographer through 15 swing states. What was revealed with their shoe-leather journalism was indisputable: Obama's campaign organization had out-organized McCain's in every state and Republican strongholds like Troy, Ohio, were going to flip blue. Marty whittled down his 900 photographs of the candidates and their supporters to 25 photographs to tell the biggest story in recent memory. Almost four months later, he returns to the most indecisive swing state and tells us what's happening to this big old country. (Cherry St. Artisan)

Photo Booth: St. Louis artist Tim Garrett says the photostrip is the "world's shortest documentary." We couldn't agree more. And so we're importing him and his booth once again to help capture the intimate and performative moments of 2008. See some of Tim's art at www.photoboothart.com or rent your own photo booth from www.photoboothplanet.com. (Windsor Cinema foyer; Missouri Theatre)

The Quite Strange Photographs of Avery Danziger: Columbia-based photographer Danziger made "Builder of Dreams" about the eccentric Edwards James in this fantastical loss pozas. Danziger's photographs have a sly affinity with life's idiosyncratic side. (Columbia foyer at Windsor Cinema)

Video Confessional Returns! A documentary in a box, or a photo booth to be more accurate. The Video Confessional project exists to close the circuit between producer and audience, subject and spectator. Part photo booth, part confessional, the box creates a space where all of us can perform for the camera, in a setting that is at once both private and public. All are encouraged to visit the Box all weekend long and swap secrets. (Columbia foyer at Windsor Cinema)