MEMORIAL for David Larcher

For Friends and Fans gathering, drinking, and stories

Bring your stories, videos, photos of David that we can show.

David Larcher (1942 – 2023); a war baby, as he describes himself. He studied anthropology and palaeontology before turning to an artistic training at the Royal College of Art. He was a photographer from the mid-sixties and made his first film in 1969 and has been working with the medium of video since 1980. David Larcher worked as a professor of Video Art/Electronic Media at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany (1996-2007).

Filmography: Mare’s Tail (1969), Monkey’s Birthday (1973-1975), VideOvoid (1982), Ich Tank Durchblick/ View through the Aquarium of the I (1983), Eetc (1984-86), Granny’s Is (1989¬90).

“The tape surfs the interface sense / nonsense… Starting in the gap of the unsynchronized signal it insists itself into existence through the mirroring process of selfreflection. The deadline breathes its last gasp, sufficient for the transit of a migrating signifier. / I will make a poem of pure nothing.” ~David Larcher