# Charles Recher
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{{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](/source/film_maker), [installation art](/source/installation_art), [video art](/source/video_art), [visual music](/source/visual_music)
}}
'''Charles Recher''' ({{circa|1950}}{{snd}}January 26, 2017) was an American [installation art](/source/installation_art)ist and filmmaker who lived and worked in [Miami Beach](/source/Miami_Beach), Florida. Recher created in excess of one hundred films and videos. His work ranged from the film "[Kwagh-Hir](/source/Kwagh-Hir) (Thing of Magic)", a documentary of the theater tradition of the [Tiv people](/source/Tiv_people) of [Nigeria](/source/Nigeria), to "Cars & Fish", [Miami Performing Arts Center](/source/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](/source/University_of_Havana) (Cuba). His work was selected for the "Masters of the Avant-Garde" program at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) Carpenter Center for the Arts, where he presented his work as a guest lecturer. For fifteen years he taught the [experimental film](/source/experimental_film) and video program that he originated for [Miami-Dade College's Wolfson Campus](/source/Miami_Dade_College_(Wolfson_Campus)). His awards and fellowships include Cultural Consortium Fellowships, [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) regional grants, and State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowships.[{{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}}]
[{{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}}][{{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}}]
Recher died on January 26, 2017, at the age of 66.[{{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](/source/Miami_Herald) |publisher=}}]
==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)[{{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}}]
* ''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)[{{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}}]
* ''Laughing'', video installation (2009)[{{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}}]
* ''Change'', 30-second video (2008)
* ''Body'', video installation (2007)
* ''Water'', video installation (2007)
* ''Monitor'', collaborative video/sound performance (2006)[{{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}}]
* ''Cars & Fish'', 2-hour video performance (2005), with the composer [Gustavo Matamoros](/source/Gustavo_Matamoros) for the Miami [Performing Arts Center](/source/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}}][{{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}}]
* ''Fish School'', 5-foot robotic fish (2005)
* ''Hypersonic Flock'', collaborative sound performance (2005)[{{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}}]
* ''TV-2'', video performance (2005)
* ''Kwagh-hir'', 30-min. documentary video of the traditional theatre of the Tiv people in Nigeria (2005),[{{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}}] short version shown at the 2006 Miami Film Festival
* ''Halo'', sound performance (2004)
* ''Trinity'', video installation (2003)[{{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}}]
* ''I'm Ready'', video installation with actor Julio Gomez (2003)[{{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}}]
* ''TV'', video performance (2001)[{{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}}][{{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}}]
* ''Video Prophet'', video performance (2000)[{{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}}]
* ''Angels and Devils'', project with 2-D drawn imagery (1998)
* ''Face II'', interactive video installation (1997)