Charles Recher
Charles Recher 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 ", 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. 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.
Recher died on January 26, 2017, at the age of 66.
Select Film and Media Events
Seagull, Bamboo, Water, Leaf, four video loops Mat Wit Bat, Bit Tic Mor, Tu Ba Cal, Wal Di Cal, four video loops Walk Run, two facing screen video loops No I Don't, video loop Small Stuff, 2D and 3D correlative works Rice & Beans, video installation Face2Face, video installation Metro-Mover, video installation Reality 2, internet podcasts Reality 1, internet podcasts Fire, video installation Ticket Booth, video installation Laughing, video installation Casa Valentina, 4 min. video Change, 30-second video Body, video installation Water, video installation Monitor, collaborative video/sound performance Cars & Fish, 2-hour video performance, with the composer Gustavo Matamoros for the Miami Performing Arts Center