
I don’t believe you, you’re a liar
Sunday, March 21, 2 - 6 p.m.
Wentrup
Tempelhofer Ufer 22
10963 Berlin
Artist William Hunt transformed the Artists' Studio into a recording studio and invited singer songwriters to be hooked up to a polygraph machine (lie detector). He explored the ability to separate mind from body asking is it truly heartfelt or are they just pushing our buttons?
“I don’t believe you, you’re a liar” was Bob Dylan’s response to a heckler in 1966 during a performance at the Free Trade Hall when he had made the transition to electric. Acoustic and especially folk music had traditionally been associated with protest and the authentic.
At the final performance in London´s King's Cross station 'Saturday Night TV' acts performed linked up to a lie detector and were critiqued not only on their singing talent but on their genuineness. The final was judged by a ‘celebrity panel’ along with the audience who were asked to shout “play loud, play real loud” or “I don’t believe you, you’re a liar”. Members of the audience were dressed as Bob Dylan.



