{"id":17559,"date":"2015-12-17T01:07:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T01:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17559"},"modified":"2015-12-17T01:07:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T01:07:40","slug":"text-videovoid-by-david-larcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/12\/17\/text-videovoid-by-david-larcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Videovoid by David Larcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laurentine.arscenic.tv\/medias\/films\/article\/videovoid-text-david-larcher?lang=fr\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"larcher.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/larcher.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post concerned an atypical piece of art by David Larcher.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/laurentine.arscenic.tv\/medias\/films\/article\/videovoid-text-david-larcher?lang=fr\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Text Videovoid<\/em><\/a> (1993) (aka <em>Videovoid Text<\/em>, etc) is a good example of Larcher&#8217;s more usual work in film and video which is non-narrative yet remains eminently watchable, something you can&#8217;t always say about the outer limits of video production. The UK&#8217;s Channel 4 broadcast a large chunk of Larcher cut-ups one evening in the 1980s, something they&#8217;d never do today; I used to have that broadcast on tape, and enjoyed watching it with the sound off and music playing.\u00a0<em>Text Videovoid<\/em> (1993) is a lot stranger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The viewer is navigated through dark electronically constructed seascapes, conjuring a lighthouse beam and the Blue Peter code flag (&#8220;all on board \u2013 this ship is leaving port&#8221;) to lead us into a heaving ocean of alphabetic patterns where dolphins formed from letters leap from the waves. Larcher\u2019s eloquent stream of consciousness monologue proceeds from a reflexive incantation of video terminology into a philosophical discourse on the state of non-being at the heart of the void itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Larcher&#8217;s video is also described as a work-in-progress which may explain why different times (and titles) are listed. The copy linked here runs for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post concerned an atypical piece of art by David Larcher.\u00a0Text Videovoid (1993) (aka Videovoid Text, etc) is a good example of Larcher&#8217;s more usual work in film and video which is non-narrative yet remains eminently watchable, something you can&#8217;t always say about the outer limits of video production. The UK&#8217;s Channel 4 broadcast a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/12\/17\/text-videovoid-by-david-larcher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Text Videovoid by David Larcher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[7869],"class_list":["post-17559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-television","tag-david-larcher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4zd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}