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International İstanbul Biennial events continue to take place with '9B Talks - VI' with the participation of the British artist Pavel Büchler.
"Making Nothing Happen" The sixth lecture in the series of '9B Talks' realized within the 9th International İstanbul Biennial will take place on the 21st of April, Thursday at Yıldız Technical University with the participation of the British artist Pavel Büchler. The lecture titled "Making Nothing Happen" will start at 18:30 pm. The '9B Talks -VI', in which Pavel Büchler is going to speak about his art practice and previous works as well as introducing his project for the İstanbul Biennial, will be free of charge and carried out with simultaneous translation.
Summing up his own practice as "making nothing happen", he is committed to the catalytic nature of art - its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange. Büchler works with old technology, audio recording, light and the material and mental presence of texts in his installations that deal with the emergence of experience and meaning in art. In 'Live' (2003) sounds composed from 351 'live' recordings in the artist's record collection, spanning a variety of musical styles from improvised jazz to rock, pop, folk and classical music, the artist brought together the sounds of audiences recorded over the last forty years in many parts of the world. This way the concept of live presence of the art audience was created in an empty hall from "nothing". The artist is interested in such ghostly traces of life in audio recordings and photographs.
Through the manipulation of found materials as he did in 'Life and Opinions' (2004), in which an intermittently flashing light bulb projected onto a page from 'Tristram Shandy', Pavel Büchler looks at how the convergence between the presence of the past (in photography) and simultaneity (in broadcast media) make our world a strange place. Concerned with the distortions of language, he gives a critical attention to the gaps in communication, concerned as he is with the limits of the communicative properties of visual language. He often addresses the question of how to legitimacy of communication in addition to its ephemeral and long-lasting nature. 'Diary 2001' (2003), a single diary page on which the artist made entries for each day for a whole year, resulting in a surface that has become textured and bruised, full of unintelligible information. Pavel Büchler will be talking about his project that will be exhibited at the 9th International İstanbul Biennial at the end of his presentation. For the project, the artist has brought together 20 tannoys that he has gathered from around the world, first generation text-to-speech software and "The Castle" by Franz Kafka to focus on how communication is at once present and denied. Throughout the talk, Pavel Büchler will be tracing fragmented messages and moments that get lost within the busy urban life ironically as communication gets more technological Pavel Büchler is as an artist, lecturer and writer, who has become an influential figure in British contemporary art. A co-founder of the Cambridge Darkroom, one of the first spaces in the UK devoted to artists' photography, Büchler went on to become Head of the School of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art (1992-96) and, since 1997, has been a Research Professor in Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. For more information about the artist, you can visit his website.
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