Entry of Stride Gallery, Liar! Liar!, AmCor Deception Detection Training interactive drawing performance and exhibition (with Corinne Thiessen), 2015.
As visitors approach the gallery, they are subject to rigorous screening by AmCor’s highly trained authoritative, specialized security services.
Our officers not only ensure safety, they set the tone and ensure compliance with the absurdity of the Liar! Liar! exhibition and performance.
As visitors enter they hear an audio recording of a computerized voiceover spouting authoritative sounding statements and warnings in many languages including English, French and German. Besides the audio and signage, the Liar! Liar! exhibition consists of drawings which play with instructional texts and diagrams that purport to teach lie detection, crudely depicting “liars” and how to spot them.
AmCor agents wait in a private location, prepared for lie detection.
Photo credit: Nicole Kelly Westman
When their number is called, AmCor participants approach for deception detection.
Photo credit: Nicole Kelly Westman
AmCor agents always maintain professional distance.
Photo credit: Nicole Kelly Westman
Across a table from the participant, “Officer Dåhl” and “Officer Îdíã” stoically ask interrogation-like questions (about simple things like what the person had for dinner) while drawing distorted, blind contour drawings and diagrams of the participant’s facial expressions, at times recording quotes from the participant.
Photo credit: Nicole Kelly Westman, Stride Gallery, Calgary
AmCor officers assess the results of their drawing of lies.
Co-founders and Co-CEOs officers Claöd Îdíã” PhA, and Aj Dåhl, PhB established the highly successful company AmCor® in 1989 in response to a rapidly growing market for fear-based products and services.
Photo credit: Nicole Kelly Westman, Stride Gallery, Calgary
Gunthar Reising, Minnesota Post, 2017…
“What kind of tacos did you eat? Why chicken and not beef?” Thiessen said, interrogating an exhibit-goer while posing as a lie detecting security agent, which she and her partner did for the entire two hours of the exhibit opening. The absurdity of the question “Why not beef tacos?” summarizes the entire exhibit — lie detection, state surveillance and other forms of bureaucratic truth-searching are as absurd as National Science Foundation approved witchcraft. In their exhibit, Modahl and Thiessen approached what they saw as infringements of freedom with carefully planned satire. Their humor was evident down to the details of their uniforms.
Living Things Festival, Kelowna, BC, 2017
AmCor® specializes in Human Lie Detection using technological advancements in blind contour drawing techniques to analyze micro-expressions.
Photo credit: Joanne Gervais
AmCor Inc Deception Detection Services (with Corinne Thiessen) conduct 3 days of interactive drawing interrogation at the Living Things International Festival, Kelowna, BC, January 2018
Photo credit: Joanne Gervais
Living Things Festival, Kelowna, BC, 2017
Photo credit, Joanne Gervais
One of hundreds of interrogation drawings analyzed post interview.
One of hundreds of interrogation drawings analyzed post interview.
One of hundreds of interrogation drawings analyzed post interview.
