As VCUarts associate professor John Freyer’s weeklong Tate Exchange residency continues, Style Weekly covered his plans for bringing his Fifty/Fifty project to London.
He invites pairs of people to have often personal conversations over a Mason jar of ice water about a turning point in their lives. A personal memento is sealed in the jar at the end of each conversation. In 2016, Freyer built his first Coffee Bike, a pop-up, pour-over coffee station run by Rams in Recovery students that distributes free coffee while engaging people in conversations.
“In recovery, everything works on community,” Freyer says. “If you’re struggling and you see a group of people who are living a life that looks fun and healthy, you can see that it’s possible … but also people have an idea about what addiction looks like … when they run into people that look like them, it changes the conversation.”
Read more in Style Weekly.
Image: John Freyer’s coffee bike. Credit via Style Weekly.
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