Just Tell Me The Truth
Interview performance
Just Tell Me the Truth, a Performance Experiment by Jennie Guy & Louise Cherry. Hosted by MAVis, IADT, Dunlaoghaire in Studio 6, Temple Bar Galleries & Studios. August 2008.
Over 6 hours 23 interviewees signed a social contract allowing them to be hooked up to a lie-detector, filmed, recorded and photographed by Jennie Guy & Louise Cherry whilst being asked 74 interrogative questions. The questions focused on truth telling & a number of the questions specifically related to what it means to be an artist working in the current circumstance of the studio/gallery/museum/funding mechanisms and how this relates to the way an artist might construct their identity. A wall based exhibition comprising of photos and lie detector read outs unfolded temporally as each interview took place. Audience members could freely wander amidst a laboratory like environment but were discouraged by a hostess from talking to any of the cast and advised not to touch any of the equipment and to remain silent at all times.
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The Cast: Jennie Guy, Louise Cherry, Sven Anderson, Sarah Hurl, Martin Power, Ian Thuillier, Georgina Miller.
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Just Tell Me The Truth
Video from interview performance
Lie detector
Lie detector being attached
Artist Sven Anderson programming installation
Artist Sarah Hurl operating lie detector
Interviewee signing social contract
Interview performance
Audience viewing interview data and photos
Installation view - Footage from previous recorded interviews
Interview performance
Audience watching interview performance
Interview performance
Artist Martin Power processing images
Lie detector readout