Biography:
	Bruce Gilchrist
 is a Scottish artist born in Imtarfa , Malta in 1959.
Before studying Fine Arts in the early 1980's he studied science in
Glasgow and consequently worked as a Research Assistant for Unilever
Research Laboratories and later as a Marine Seismic Technician for the
Western Geophysical Company of America.  He based himself in London in
the late 1980's.







	A seminal work, working with the unconscious body 'The Enigma of Good
Health' was shown at the Air Gallery, London (1988).  An Arts Council
Research and Development grant enabled him to visit the Clinical
Psychology dept. at the University of Texas, Austin (1993), where he was
introduced to biofeedback technology and the methodology of the sleep
lab. which he has since used as a way of eliciting expression from the
unconscious and subconscious body.
	A series of performances entitled, 'A Way of Asking for Reasons' were
inspired by the extraordinary work of the consciousness researchers,
Cohen and Price, who were engaged in developing communication conduits
between lucid dreamers and observers in the waking world.  Versions of
these performances were presented at the 'Earthwire' event, Loftus, East
Cleveland(1994), 'Die Lieber Rausch Convention', ïZap ArtÍ,
Brighton(1995),  'The Incident', Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg,
Switzerland (1995). , 'The Discarnate' (1996), C.C.A., Glasgow and the
Soros Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (1998), and 'Divided by Resistance'
(1996), I.C.A., London.
	In collaboration with the computer software programmer, Jonny Bradley,
he was awarded the first ICA/Toshiba Art and Innovation Commission
(1995).

	As part of the event ñWintermusicî at the Place Theatre (1997), he and
Jonny Bradley collaborated with the music group, Piano Circus, lighting
designer Jo Joelson, the composer Nikki Yeoh to produce the music
performance ñThought Conductorî where Nikki YeohÍs musical thought (via
a digital e.e.g.machine) was transcribed in real- time into italian
notation, and played on stage by Piano Circus. Recent work in Helsinki,
Finland involved eliciting sound from plants using bio-electric
potential devices in the forest, which were then played back at the Muu
Media Base Gallery as sound and vibration events.