Jennie Guy

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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