Untitled - EMAF

AUSSTELLUNG // EXHIBITION
The two-channel video installation shows public places in four growing metropolises of the world: Shanghai, Mexico City, New York
and Berlin. 360° shots of various panoramas were made in each city. These views of street stands, streams of pedestrians, buildings and
traffic intersections represent spheres that lie between public and private spaces.
Two cities are placed opposite each other. Each view of the city is connected with one of the other four, leading to six comparisons. The
building fragments, street views and moving objects that represent the cultural identity of each place are cut out of their surroundings
and placed into another urban landscape, on the principle of ›copy and paste‹, similar to the process of Asian ›jigsaw puzzles‹. The created
film sequences are projected onto a rotating screen from two sides from a video arm that rotates at the same speed as the shooting camera.
The observer also has to go with the rotating screen to follow one side of the projection.
The urban landscapes overlap each other. Urban scenes from the memory and popular local identity are stored over this, appearing
here as stereotypical constructions of architecture and urban space. (Mona Schieren)
›The rotating screen could be compared with a three-dimensional scanning device. This work is a continuation of a series of installation
and video projects in which idiosyncratic elements of particular urban environments are visually interwoven and juxtaposed with
one another.‹ (Caspar Stracke)
Caspar Stracke, *1967 in Darmstadt. He studied painting and Film/Video at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Braunschweig
(D). He received the EMARE-Residency (Hull Time Based Arts), a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship and participated in the EXPO 2000
project of ZKM and BBM. He was granted the Prize of German Film Critics, NY Bessie Award and Videokunstpreis Bremen (D). Caspar
Stracke lives and works as an artist, curator and lecturer in New York (USA) since 1993.
Exhibitions (selected)
2006 University of California San Diego Art Gallery (USA);
2005 EYEBEAM, New York (USA); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (HR);
2004 ICC, Tokyo (J);
2003 Kunsthaus Hamburg (D);
2002 ZKM, Karlsruhe (D);
2002 Goethe Institute New York (USA); Photofest, Houston, (USA)
2000 WHITNEY MUSEUM of American Art, New York (USA);
1999 Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris (F);
1998 TRANSMEDIALE, Berlin (D);
1996 Artist's Space, New York (USA) ; Eighth Floor Gallery, New York (USA); Kunst Museum Wolfsburg (D).
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