4.10.2023 seminar of accidenal wisdom: Caspar Strake
Seminar of Accidenal Wisdom: Caspar Strake
4.10.2023
In this lecture, Caspar Stracke will present three case studies of his current and past film projects in which he reflects upon artistic strategies for personal essay filmmaking. Discussed from the outset the manifold relationship between the author (filmmaker) the apparatus and the subjects. When pointing a camera, who speaks to whom? And from what position? How much of the self should be revealed and mediated? Conversely, what are the moral implications when capturing images depicting people? Likewise when appropriating film excerpts produced by others? How to grant agency to the external world when images are being captured and subsequently instrumentalized? What does it mean nowadays to be radical (in both an aesthetical and political sense) and that, in the light of cancel culture?
Caspar Stracke is an artist, filmmaker and film curator currently based in Berlin and Mexico City. Until 2017, he taught as a professor for art and moving image at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. The topics of Caspar Stracke’s films and installation works are rooted in sociology and the political question around housing, architecture and urbanism. He further has addressed media technology and its archaeology as well as questions around the societal impact of moving image cultures.