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She
Cumbrae Clyde
Commissioned by Channel 4 TV, Cumbrae Clyde was one of the “Dadarama” series of six works. In the 4th Century B.C. Plato, as the first artists, after the invention of the Greek alphabet, to understand precisely the limiting conditions of his medium, declared a State of Division on which no improvement has been made since. It amounts to a specification for the Divided State Scociety, the end result of which is only too clearly visible in the international condition one looks at today. …
The Visitation
Flower
An Illogical Trilogy
Video Roma 82/83 – programme, including information on Steve Hawley’s ‘An illogical trilogy’.pdf here
‘2nd National Independent Video Festival, IVA at ICA’, June 1982, with details of screenings of works, including Hawley’s ‘An Illogical Trilogy’.pdf here
A certificate stating that Steve Hawley’s ‘An Illogical Trilogy’ was screened at the 1st International Video Festival, June – July 1982, London.pdf here …
The Diver
19:4:90 TV Interventions
The TV Interventions project signals the end of the period of investigation for REWIND. The series for Channel 4 references David Hall’s TV Interruptions of 20 years before, as the 4 minute clips intervened in Channel 4’s schedule over an Easter weekend in 1990. Nineteen works were produced by Fields & Frames Productions and Anna Ridley from artists including David Mach, Ron Geesin, Rose Garrard, Bruce Maclean, and Alistair Maclennan.
The Television Interventions Catalogue, …
Granny’s Is
This experimental documentary about the director’s grandmother was shot over a ten-year period, creating an unexpected and powerful portrait of old age. Remembering an old woman in fragmented and alienated associations. The attempt to find one’s own history in the image of the late grandmother. An attempt also to bridge the gap between a sentiment and its linguistic form with the means of video aesthetics. A radically experimental work.
– David Larcher
Web page (Perspective) with descriptions of David Larcher’s films, …
ICH TANK
Psychobabble in a bubble
“In a loose sort of way it focuses on psychoanalytic forms and procedures. Lacanian ideas, schemas, underlie much of what goes on in the tape. His categories of Symbolic, Imaginary, Real translate particularly well into video, whilst his formulas and diagrams often rely on visual analogies. His seminars, ‘The eye and the gaze’, ‘The line and the light’, refer directly to optical phenomena, and his later concerns with topology and knot formation lend themselves to illustration in a visual format. …
ICH TANK (4 Screen version)
“Hence the German title which refers to das ich, the ego, thus I, conceived of as an aquarium one gazes, glances, looks, views (blick) through. In the english rendering it refers homophonically to the eye and is intended to draw the attention to the latter’s formative role in the constitution of the notion of self. The glassy stare reflecting the containing transparency of a fisch vision through its aquarium/bowl. The fisheye (ich/I) which converts the rectangle of the frame into a circle in the process of seeing more. …