Secession Podcast

Members: Werner Würtinger im Gespräch mit Claudia Märzendorfer

Secession Podcast: Members ist eine Gesprächsreihe mit Mitgliedern der Secession. Diese Folge ist ein Gespräch zwischen dem Künstler Werner Würtinger und der Künstlerin Claudia Märzendorfer. Das Gespräch wurde während mehrerer Treffen im Jänner und Februar 2024 im Atelier von Werner Würtinger in den Praterateliers aufgezeichnet.
 
Werner Würtinger (geb. 1941 in Hallein) ist ein Bildhauer, der in Wien lebt und arbeitet. Sein Studium der Bildhauerei schloss er an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien ab. In seiner darauffolgenden beinahe 30-jährigen Tätigkeit als Lehrender ebendort war er eine prägende und wichtige Integrationsfigur für mehrere Generationen von Künstler*innen und von 2001 bis 2002 Vizerektor der Akademie. Von 1995 bis 1999 war er Präsident der Wiener Secession; 2021 wurde er von dieser zum Ehrenmitglied ernannt. Er ist Herausgeber etlicher Publikationen. 2012 erhielt unter anderem das Buch Arkadien und angenehme Feinde. Die Bildhauerateliers im Prater von Revolver Publishing, Berlin (2011), das Prädikat „schönste Bücher“ Österreichs.
 
Claudia Märzendorfer (geb. 1969 in Wien) ist bildende Künstlerin. Ihr Studium der Bildhauerei schloss sie an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien ab. In ihren Arbeiten zerlegt sie Situationen und konstruierte Bedingungen und setzt diese zumindest gedanklich neu zusammen. Sie versteht die Welt als (ihr) Material. Die daraus resultierenden Bilder sind gründlich recherchiert und behalten sich dennoch einen Pop-Effekt vor, der zum unmittelbaren Verständnis führt. Zwei zentrale Aspekte ihres Werks sind Zeit und Musik, welche die Künstlerin als die einzigen neutralen Währungen betrachtet.
 
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Jingle: Hui Ye mit einem Ausschnitt aus Combat of dreams für Streichquartett und Zuspielung (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) von Alexander J. Eberhard.
 
Schnittregie: Claudia Märzendorfer
Schnitt: Claudia Märzendorfer, Paul Macheck
Programmiert vom Vorstand der Secession
Produziert von Christian Lübbert

Members: Thomas Feuerstein im Gespräch mit Lucie Strecker

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Thomas Feuerstein and the artist Lucie Strecker. It was recorded on February 17, 2024.
 
Thomas Feuerstein is a visual artist. His oeuvre encompasses sprawling installations, process-based sculptures, drawings, audio plays, and biological and internet art. Central concerns include the conjunction of linguistic, visual, and material elements, the uncovering of latent superimpositions of fact and fiction, and the nexus between art and science. Feuerstein’s method of “conceptual narration” interweaves art, architecture, philosophy, literature, and philosophy with economics, politics, and technology. Since the mid-1990s, he has harnessed biotechnologies and artificial neuronal networks to create projects that examine the interplay between individuality and sociality, an aesthetics of entropy, and a cybernetic “daimonology” of cultural processes.
 
Lucie Strecker’s trans-media practice investigates experimental systems in art and the sciences, exploring a post-anthropocentric conception of performativity. Her work has been shown at festivals and galleries and in museums. She is a fellow at the Berlin University of the Arts and a founding member of the Applied Performance Lab at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she has led artistic research projects since 2016 and taught performance art in the Art and Communication Practices division since 2020.
 
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
 
Editing Director: Thomas Feuerstein & Lucie Strecker
Editor: Paul Macheck
 
Programmed by the board of the Secession
Produced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Zach Blas in conversation with Christian Lübbert

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Zach Blas and the curator Christian Lübbert. It was recorded on March 8, 2024 in the context of the exhibition:
 
Zach Blas
CULTUS
8.3. – 9.6.2024
 
Zach Blas’s practice spans moving image, computation, installation, theory, performance, and fiction. As an artist, filmmaker, and writer, Blas draws out the philosophies and imaginaries residing in computational technologies and their industries. For his exhibition at the Secession, he developed CULTUS, a new installation that features AI-generated imagery, text, and sound, alongside computer graphics and motion-capture performances. More
 
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
 
Editing Director: Zach Blas & Christian Lübbert
Editor: Paul Macheck
 
Programmed by the board of the Secession
Produced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Imran Perretta in conversation with Bettina Spörr

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Imran Perretta and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on March 8, 2024 in the context of the exhibition:
Imran Perrettatears of the fatherland8.3. – 9.6.2024
Imran Perretta’s transdisciplinary practice spans moving image, sound, composition, performance art, and poetry. His works examine questions around power, state surveillance, alterity, neo-coloniality, and the process of identity formation in young people of Muslim heritage in Western countries in the post-9/11 era. His approach to these concerns is informed by his own experience: as a British citizen with Muslim roots, he is familiar with the challenges his works grapple with. More
Bettina Spörr is a curator at the Secession since 2008. Previously she was assistant curator and exhibition coordinator at the Generali Foundation Vienna.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Joshua Simon, Christian Lübbert & Francesco FinizioEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Joshua Simon, Christian Lübbert and Francesco Finizio in conversation

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the curator Joshua Simon, the curator Christian Lübbert (Secession) and the artist Francesco Finizio. It was recorded on February 18, 2024 in the context of the exhibition:
SLIMECurated by Joshua Simon16.2. – 30.6.2024
SLIME is a unique hybrid on-line and on-site project about our hybrid realities. Taking place at the Secession as an on-site event and as an on-line program, it includes commissioned and historic artworks, talks and performances, screenings and workshops (including one for making actual slime). Taking its name from the children’s toy—a metastable plasma-like substance that has both unique material and tactile features and a constant presence online through tutorials and documentation of people playing with it—SLIME tackles the social, cultural, political, and sensory operations of digital hybridity. More
Joshua Simon, born in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel in 1979, lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Lüneburg, Germany.
Christian Lübbert holds the position of the Junior Curator at the Secession. He has worked with art institutions such as Tate Modern, the Institute for Contemporary Arts, Chisenhale Studios, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the Delfina Foundation in London, as well as Studio Simon Denny, Galerie House of Egorn, and the Brandenburg Art Prize. Since 2017, he runs Arnis Residency, an annual residency for international artists.
Francesco Finizio was born in the United States to Italian immigrants. He studied at School of Visual Arts and the Hunter College MFA program and left the US shortly thereafter for France where he is based today. He has worked several times with Joshua Simon since 2010.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Joshua Simon, Christian Lübbert & Francesco FinizioEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Members: Dorit Margreiter Choy im Gespräch mit Sabine Breitwieser

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Dorit Margreiter Choy and the corresponding member Sabine Breitwieser. It was recorded on December 13, 2023.
Dorit Margreiter Choy lives and works in Vienna. She studied fine arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Extended study visits and scholarships have brought her to Tokyo, Berlin and Los Angeles, among other places. Her work has been shown in numerous international and national museums, exhibitions, and biennials, including extensive solo exhibitions at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (2019), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2011), the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (2009), the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig (2006), the Galerie im Taxispalais in Innsbruck (2001), and, most recently, the Plečnik Museum in Ljubljana (2023), as well as in exhibitions at the EUCA Annex in London (2023), the MACBA in Barcelona (2009), the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City (2012), and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2012). She represented Austria at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia (2009), the Cairo Biennale (2008), and the Liverpool Biennale (2004). She has been professor of fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2006. She also taught at Cal Arts in Valencia near Los Angeles (2005–2006), the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena (2005), and elsewhere.
Sabine Breitwieser is an internationally active independent curator, scholar, and museum professional with decades of professional experience. She is currently based in Vienna. She was a 2020–2021 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles with a research project that she was able to pursue further in 2022. From 2013 until 2018, she held the position of artistic director and CEO at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Previously, from 2010 until 2013, she served as chief curator of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From 1988 until 2007, she was the founding director and chief curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna, where she also oversaw the construction of the foundation’s home. She has organized and directed more than 150 monographic and thematic exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States and has also edited and published about 100 catalogues and books as well as numerous essays. In 2012, Sabine Breitwieser received the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts in New York.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Dorit Margreiter Choy & Sabine BreitwieserEditor: Christian Lübbert
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Members: Marianne Maderna in conversation with Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Marianne in conversation with the members Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler. It was recorded on December 11, 2023.
Marianne Maderna (b. 1944) lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria. Her interdisciplinary installations, environments, and performances grapple with socially relevant concerns that address the human condition and devise novel ways to frame patterns of human behavior and hierarchical systems. Her work has been featured in exhibitions including RADICAL BUSTS, Arkadenhof, University of Vienna (2015); HUMANIMALS, Zeitkunst NÖ, Dominikanerkirche Krems (2013); Das erste Haus, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna (1996); Raum und Ausgang, Secession, Vienna (1990–91); and Maderna, Secession, Vienna (1982). She was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria in 2018; the Prize of the City of Vienna for Sculpture in 1996; and the Honorary Award for Visual Arts of the State of Lower Austria in 1991.
Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler live in Eichgraben near Vienna. They have been partners in life and art since 1990; the idea of “multiple authorship” plays a central role in their work. In the 1990s, they primarily worked with socially marginalized groups: prisoners, people with mental illnesses, and individuals with additional needs. Their creative practice subsequently shifted toward collaborations with children and school and university students. In addition to these group works, they have made art engaging with its historical, social, and political context and produced participatory projects that underscore the visitors’ or users’ active involvement in creative processes. Large-format drawings have flanked their work throughout the years. Christine has been professor of drawing and visual languages at the Institute of Art and Design in TU Wien’s Faculty of Architecture and Planning since 2002. Irene has led the class in cooperative strategies at the University of Fine Arts Münster since 2011.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Marianne Maderna, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler
Editor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Agency of Singular Investigations in conversation with Annette Südbeck

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the Agency of Singular Investigations (Anna Titova and Stanislav Shuripa) and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on December 15, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Agency of Singular InvestigationsOn New Thinking And Other Forgotten Dreams1.12.2023 – 25.2.2024
Anna Titova and Stanislav Shuripa founded Agency of Singular Investigations (ASI) in 2014 to take a stand on the dramatic changes in Russia’s political reality and cultural atmosphere and to respond to the advent of the postfactual age by thinking about alternative ways of harnessing images and means of communication for the construction of identities and worldviews.
At the Secession, ASI present the new installation On New Thinking and Other Forgotten Dreams. It is the first part of their wide-ranging research project The Park of Mind Revolutions, which investigates the history of subjectivity and the forms and functions of Russia’s self-image in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organized as a dialogue between the worker Grigoriy Zamzin and a pickle about the meaning of Russia’s most recent history, the installation comprises four sculptures, a sprawling wall diagram, and a blue carpet. Taking inspiration from the interwar literature of magical realism, the artists employ carefully selected fantastic elements, irrational events, and metaphors to frame a critical perspective on the complexity of their country’s historical evolution. Playing with hybrid dimensions of reality and collisions between historical forces, they expose the energies that shape the psychological, technological, and social system. More
Dr. Annette Südbeck is managing director and curator at the Secession. She studied Fine Arts, German Studies and Arts in Braunschweig.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Annette Südbeck and ASIEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Charlie Prodger in conversation with Jeanette Pacher

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Charlie Prodger and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on December 1, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Charlie ProdgerThe Offering Formula1.12.2023 – 25.2.2024
Charlie Prodger (b.1974) is a Scottish artist working with moving image, photography, sculpture and drawing. She won the 2018 Turner Prize and represented Scotland at the 2019 Venice Biennale. She is currently a 2023–24 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Broadly, Prodger’s work orbits histories - from the weight of deep geological time to more contingent forms of narrative such as anecdote and oral history. Through the prism of queer subjectivity, her work explores intertwined relations between the body, landscape, language, technology and time. More
Jeanette Pacher is a curator at the Secession and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna / Site-Specific Art department. She was part of the editorial team of Ö1 Kunstradio and began working in the curatorial field at Kunsthalle Wien.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Jeanette PacherEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Mai Ling in conversation with Christian Lübbert

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist collective and association Mai Ling and the curator Christian Lübbert. It was recorded on November 3, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Mai LingNOT YOUR ORNAMENT15.9. – 12.11.2023
Founded in Vienna in 2019, Mai Ling is an artists’ collective and association dedicated to facilitating dialogues on experiences of racism, sexism, homophobia, and any kind of prejudgment, particularly against Asian FLINT* (women, lesbian, inter, non-binary, and trans). Rooted in solidarity against patriarchal and racial discrimination, the group offers a space and growing network to give voice to the many individuals affected by such discrimination and foster new forms of collaboration. As an anonymous collective and a multi-hybrid figure, with everyone identifying as “Mai Ling,” the group employs a variety of artistic and discursive formats such as performances, texts, videos, sound, installations, talk series, interventions, and protests. More
Christian Lübbert is a curator at the Secession. He has worked with art institutions such as Tate Modern, the Institute for Contemporary Arts, Chisenhale Studios, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Delfina Foundation in London, as well as Studio Simon Denny, Galerie House of Egorn and the Brandenburg Art Prize in Berlin. Since 2017, he runs Arnis Residency, an annual residency for international artists. In 2020, he organised Afloat Assembly, a residency for contemporary art on a sailing boat.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Christian Lübbert & Mai LingEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert