Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Jordan Strafer, the curator Marti Manen and the curator Christian Lübbert. It was recorded on February 17, 2023 in the context of the exhibition: Jordan StraferLOOPHOLE17.2. – 16.4.2023 New York-based artist Jordan Strafer’s primary medium is video. Her part-autobiographical, part-fictitious work reflects the complex nature of racial identity, gender, sexuality, class, and ‘Americanism.’ A key aspect of her practice is the thoughtful yet playful choreography of seemingly antagonistic emotions—both comical and tragic, intimate and factual, familiar and unfamiliar, repulsive and appealing situations appear in an unusually fluid manner. Drawing from true stories, she makes visible that realities are rarely dualistic. More Marti Manen is Director of Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. He has curated exhibitions at the Museo de Historia Natural (Mexico City), Aara (Bangkok), Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), Konsthall C (Stockholm), CA2M (Madrid), and Fundació Miró (Barcelona). Manen was the curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and curated Momentum10 (Biennale in Moss, Norway, 2019). In the 1990s, he curated five years of exhibitions in his room located in a student flat in Barcelona. 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, for the first time. The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast. 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 Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert