Biography: Born in Prague
Lives and works in Britain since 1981


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 Modern Paintings +, Gallerie S. E.,
Bergen
1998 Blind Spot, Artspace, Sydney
1997 Pavel Buchler, Portfolio Gallery,
Edinburgh
Red Flag (public art project
commissioned by Book Works),
Manchester


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1999 Stunt, Hordaland Kunstersenter,
Bergen
1998 Whispers, Lies and Text, CAST
Gallery, Hobart
Torkenradio: Live Shit (72 hour webcast
produced by Chris Dorley Brown), The
Junction, Cambridge 1998 Receptor,
Galerie Steinek, Vienna A to Z, The
Approach, London


FURTHER READING
Buchler, P. Ghost Stories: Stray
Thoughts on
Photography and Film, Proboscis,
London 1999
Durden, M. Pavel Buchler: Interview,
Portfolio
Gallery, Edinburgh 1997
Hunt, I. "Red Rag," Afterall No. 0,
London 1998
Papastergiadis, N. "The Friendly Eye
and the
Blind Spot," Pavel Buchler: Blind Spot,
Artspace, Sydney 1998
Phillippi, D. "Sunday February 30,"
Afterall
No. 0, London 1998
Source:"Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue
Date of source:1999

Personal Profile: Artist's Statement:
LIVE
The applause emanating from the empty
concert hall in the back courtyard of
Bluecoat Chambers has been composed
from almost 400 live recordings in the
artist's record collection, spanning a
variety of musical styles from improvised
jazz to rock, pop, folk and classical
music. It brings together the sounds of
audiences recorded over the last 40
years in many parts of the world, from
New York's Carnegie Hall and Brixton
Academy to massive outdoor festivals
and obscure clubs in Tatlin or Cape
Town.


Every album in the collection was
digitised. The sound of the music was
then deleted, leaving bursts of applause
distributed over the playing time of the
original recording, separated by periods
of silence. All the resulting tracks were
mixed together, so that in some parts of
the final work very large audiences were
created by random overlay, whereas in
others a single pair of clapping hands
may still be heard for a brief moment or
there may be no sound at all.


After its inauguration in Liverpool as a
public sound installation, LIVE will be
released on a vinyl LP, the limited
edition of which will be the same as the
number of records used in the production
of the work. The album will be launched
in October 1999 at the Alten Gramophon-
Fabrik in Hanover where the world's first
phonographic record was commercially
pressed in 1898.


Credits: Produced and presented by the
Foundation for Arts and Creative
Technology, Liverpool, with thanks to
Charles Essche (independent curator),
Aleliergemeinschaft Gramophon,
Hanover, Tosh Ryan and Matt Wand.
Financially assisted by Manchester
Metropolitan University.

Personal Profile Source: "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue
Personal Profile Source Date: 1999
Gender: male
Type: person