{{Short description|American installation artist and filmmaker}} {{Infobox artist | image = Portrait of Charles Recher by Michael Betancourt, 2002.jpg | name = Charles Recher | birth_date = {{birth date text|1950}} | field = film maker, installation art, video art, visual music }} '''Charles Recher''' ({{circa|1950}}{{snd}}January 26, 2017) was an American installation artist and filmmaker who lived and worked in Miami Beach, Florida. Recher created in excess of one hundred films and videos. His work ranged from the film "Kwagh-Hir (Thing of Magic)", a documentary of the theater tradition of the Tiv people of Nigeria, to "Cars & Fish", Miami Performing Arts Center's inaugural video installation, which cast 600-foot-long swirling images onto adjacent building façades during Art Basel/Miami Beach in 2005.
==Career== Recher held numerous guest lectureships and workshops at national and international institutions, including the University of Havana (Cuba). His work was selected for the "Masters of the Avant-Garde" program at Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Arts, where he presented his work as a guest lecturer. For fifteen years he taught the experimental film and video program that he originated for Miami-Dade College's Wolfson Campus. His awards and fellowships include Cultural Consortium Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts regional grants, and State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowships.<ref name="Florida Division of Cultural Affairs">{{cite web|title=Individual Artist Fellowships Announced|url=http://www.florida-arts.org/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=173|publisher=Florida Division of Cultural Affairs|accessdate=4 February 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221190626/http://www.florida-arts.org/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=173|archivedate=21 February 2014}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=Biography of Charles Recher|url=http://www.southernartistry.org/biography.cfm?id=1442|publisher=SouthernArtistry.org|accessdate=20 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726144450/http://www.southernartistry.org/biography.cfm?id=1442|archive-date=2011-07-26|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=StPetersburgTimes19841109>{{citation |title=Judges like what they see in Suncoast art entries |publisher=St. Petersburg Times |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?sjid=p3wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6475,398065&dq=charles-recher+-miami-herald&hl=en&id=VAYOAAAAIBAJ |date=9 November 1984 |accessdate=2011-02-04}}</ref>
Recher died on January 26, 2017, at the age of 66.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article129285344.html|title=The man behind the Miami Beach art scene, Charles Recher dies at 66|website=Miami Herald |publisher=}}</ref>
==Select Film and Media Events== * ''Seagull, Bamboo, Water, Leaf'', four video loops (2015) * ''Mat Wit Bat, Bit Tic Mor, Tu Ba Cal, Wal Di Cal'', four video loops (2015) * ''Walk Run'', two facing screen video loops (2014) * ''No I Don't'', video loop (2014) * ''Small Stuff'', 2D and 3D correlative works (2013)<ref>{{cite web|last=Sperber|first=Irene|title=Thinking Small – Charles Recher Parses the Big Stuff|url=http://www.miamiartzine.com/latest-features/features/1740-thinking-small|work=miamiartzine.com|publisher=Miami Beach Arts Trust|accessdate=4 February 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140204023109/http://www.miamiartzine.com/latest-features/features/1740-thinking-small|archivedate=4 February 2014}}</ref> * ''Rice & Beans'', video installation (2012) * ''Face2Face'', video installation (2011) * ''Metro-Mover'', video installation (2011) * ''Reality 2'', internet podcasts (2011) * ''Reality 1'', internet podcasts (2010) * ''Fire'', video installation (2010) * ''Ticket Booth'', video installation (2009)<ref name="Ybor Festival of the Moving Image">{{cite web|title=Charles Recher: Video Installations|url=http://www.yborfilmfestival.com/2009/artists_charles_recher.html|work=Laughing Heads, Ticket Booth|publisher=Ybor Film Festival|accessdate=2 October 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401145829/http://www.yborfilmfestival.com/2009/artists_charles_recher.html|archivedate=1 April 2012}}</ref> * ''Laughing'', video installation (2009)<ref name="Ybor Festival of the Moving Image"/> * ''Casa Valentina'', 4 min. video (2008)<ref name="Peter Melaragno">{{cite web|last=Melaragno|first=Peter|title=Peter Melaragno Miami Video|url=https://www.pmelaragno.com/MISC.htm|work=Casa Valentina|publisher=Peter Melaragno|accessdate=2 October 2011}}</ref> * ''Change'', 30-second video (2008) * ''Body'', video installation (2007) * ''Water'', video installation (2007) * ''Monitor'', collaborative video/sound performance (2006)<ref name="The Studio@620">{{cite web|title=EMIT: Gustavo Matamoros & Charles Recher|url=http://www.studio620.org/620_previous/p_gmcr.htm|work=Monitor|accessdate=2 October 2011|archive-date=25 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425014946/http://www.studio620.org/620_previous/p_gmcr.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Cars & Fish'', 2-hour video performance (2005), with the composer Gustavo Matamoros for the Miami Performing Arts Center<ref name="MPAC/Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts">{{cite web|title=Miami Performing Arts Center Presents ''Cars & Fish'' |url=http://www.arshtcenter.org/_inc/press/releases/pressRelease.aspx?rid=10045|work=CARS & FISH|publisher=Carnival Center for the Performing Arts|accessdate=2 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Matamoros|first=Gustavo|title=cars & fish (2005)|url=https://subtropics.org/gustavomatamoros/2005/12/cars-fish/|work=Cars & Fish|publisher=Subtropics.org|accessdate=4 February 2014}}</ref> * ''Fish School'', 5-foot robotic fish (2005) * ''Hypersonic Flock'', collaborative sound performance (2005)<ref name="Miami New Times">{{cite web|last=Oberkreser|first=Lyssa|title=Falling on Deft Ears|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-02-23/music/falling-on-deft-ears/%28already%20on%20Wikipedia%29/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128175519/http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-02-23/music/falling-on-deft-ears/(already%20on%20Wikipedia)/|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 January 2013|work=Hypersonic|publisher=Miami New Times|accessdate=2 October 2011}}</ref> * ''TV-2'', video performance (2005) * ''Kwagh-hir'', 30-min. documentary video of the traditional theatre of the Tiv people in Nigeria (2005),<ref name="Ybor Film Festival 2006">{{cite web|title=Ybor Film Festival: shorts, documentaries, animation, experimental|url=http://www.yborfilmfestival.com/2006/ShortsDocsAnimationExperimental.pdf|work=Kwagh-hir|publisher=Ybor Film Festival|accessdate=2 October 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401145837/http://www.yborfilmfestival.com/2006/ShortsDocsAnimationExperimental.pdf|archivedate=1 April 2012}}</ref> short version shown at the 2006 Miami Film Festival * ''Halo'', sound performance (2004) * ''Trinity'', video installation (2003)<ref name="Festival of the Moving Image">{{cite web|title=Festival of the Moving Image|url=http://www.yborfilmfestival.com/2003/charles_recher.html|work=Trinity|publisher=Ybor Film Festival|accessdate=2 October 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401145843/http://www.yborfilmfestival.com/2003/charles_recher.html|archivedate=1 April 2012}}</ref> * ''I'm Ready'', video installation with actor Julio Gomez (2003)<ref name="Palm Beach Art">{{cite web|last=Summers|first=Marya|title=Local Art, National Appeal|url=http://palmbeachart.com/Archives/PBICA_june_2001.html|work=Video Prophet, I'm Ready, Electrowave (Ride)|publisher=Palm Beach Art|accessdate=2 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425015238/http://palmbeachart.com/Archives/PBICA_june_2001.html|archive-date=25 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''TV'', video performance (2001)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Betancourt|first1=Michael|title=The Rasp and The Little Rock: Charles Recher's TV|url=http://www.hi-beam.net/hi-beam/betancourt.html|website=hi-beam: illuminating experimental cinema|publisher=www.hi-beam.net|accessdate=2 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Betancourt|first1=Michael|title=Re-Viewing Miami: A Collection of Essays, Criticism, & Art Reviews|date=2004|publisher=Wildside Press|isbn=0-8095-1122-3|url=https://wildsidepress.com/re-viewing-miami-a-collection-of-essays-criticism-art-reviews-by-michael-betancourt-tpb/|accessdate=4 February 2014}}</ref> * ''Video Prophet'', video performance (2000)<ref name="Festival of the Moving Image"/><ref name="Palm Beach Art"/> * ''Electrowave'' (aka ''Ride''), video installation in public bus (1999)<ref name="Palm Beach Art"/><ref name="Tigertail Productions">{{cite web|title=Video Installation: "ELECTROWAVE" Bus|url=http://www.tigertail.org/recher.html|work=Electrowave (Ride)|publisher=Mary Luft, Tigertail Productions|accessdate=2 October 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402193823/http://www.tigertail.org/recher.html|archivedate=2 April 2012}}</ref> * ''Angels and Devils'', project with 2-D drawn imagery (1998) * ''Face II'', interactive video installation (1997)<ref name="Tigertail Productions"/> * ''Coffee Chocolate Art'', collaborative video/music installation (1997) * ''Fish Tank'', 3 min. video (1996) * ''You and Him'', interactive video installation (1995) * ''Florida'', 18 min. film (1994) * ''Elevator'', video installation (1993) * ''Florida Study'', film installation (1993) * ''Face'', interactive video installation (1993) * ''Dancer and Monument'', film installation (1992) * ''Viewing'', video installation (1991) * ''War Games II'', film installation (1991) * ''Flamingo'', 6 min. film (1990) * ''Industry'', multi-media installation (1990) * ''Woman I Never Was'', film installation (1990) * ''A.M.'', film installation (1990) * ''Static'', film installation (1989) * ''Monsters'', film installation (1989) * ''No'', film installation (1989) * ''My Jamaica Vacation'', 45 min. video (1988) * ''Washington'', 18 min. video (1988) * ''Ocean Angle'', 60 min. film performance (1986) * ''Gorgon'', film installation (1985) * ''Portrait I'', 3 min. film (1985) * ''All Hallows Eve'', film installation (1984) * ''Applause'', film installation (1984) * ''Volcano'', film performance (1983)<ref name="Tigertail Productions"/> * ''Gulls'', film installation (1983) * ''Come On Over'', film installation (1981) * ''Snafu'', film installation (1981) * ''Teyibahw'', 10 min. film (1980) * ''Soma'', 4 min. video (1979) * ''Bike'', film performance (1978) (a bicycle with a film projector, which was operated by riding)<ref name="Tigertail Productions"/> * ''Areba'', 3 min. film; ''Window'', film installation (1977) * ''Black Out'', film installation (1975) * ''Overhead'', 4 min. film (1975) * ''War Games'', 3 min. film (1973) * ''Couple'', 5 min. video (1972) * ''Room In'', film installation (1972) * ''Pushing'', film performance (1971) * ''Self-Portrait'', 5 min. film (1971)
== References == {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== * https://www.charlesrecher.com/ {{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Recher, Charles}} Category:American installation artists Category:American experimental filmmakers Category:American video artists Category:1950s births Category:2017 deaths