The renowned English artist presents his work for the first time in Brazil with an unreleased version of his video "Ich Tank" David Larcher's video exhibit presents some of the most instigating works of contemporary videoart productions. The English artist, born in London in 1942, is regarded, by virtue of his polemic and poetic work as one of the most prolific, deft creators in the international video arena. Larcher graduated in Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University in Great Britain. In 1960, however, he began working as a photographer and in 1964, completed his post-graduate studies in Film and Television at the Royal College of Art in London. Since 1983, Larcher has been living in Köln, Germany, where he teaches at the Academy of Media Arts. During this Videobrasil tribute to the artist, three video productions will be presented providing an overall view of Larcher's work. Notably among them the work "Ich Tank", originally produced in 1983, which has been systematically updated along all these years. The version being presented at Videobrasil is yet to be released and this is the first time Larcher shows his work in a Latin-American cultural space. "Ich Tank" , a sort of visual poem, proposes concepts and ideas through the possible meanings of the word Ich (I, in German) as well as derivations of its meanings in English. "When I lived in Berlin in 1983, I had problems pronunciating the Ich (I) pronoun and the idea for this video began as an innocent game of words" says Larcher. "This was the starting point for this video, the mise-en-scène of vaguely ichtian acts based on a series of puns. In a certain way this work also deals with psychoanalytic procedures and forms. Lacan's ideas permeate the video throughout; his formulations on the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real are particularly suited to video language, while its formulas and diagrams establish visual analogies. Originally, the video was created to run the equivalent time of a psychotherapy session (50 minutes), which practically coincides with the 52 minute duration of one-hour programs on television. The creative process, however, eventually became more important than the intended format. "Granny's Is", in its most recent version produced in 1990, is also part of Larcher's video presentation. This work, corroborating the author's distinct attributes, unfolds along the frontier between language and visual words, a unique video text which explores the resources of imagination and electronic media in a singular manner. "EETC", produced in 1986, is another example of Larcher's work shown for the first time to the Brazilian public. It is a visual document where the author uses video's basic resources - image, colors, language and music - to obtain an instigating result, stressed by associations, memories and fantasies. One of the Es in the title refers to the first letter in Elizabeth, the name of Larcher's sister and one of his collaborators.
