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. 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: Joshua Simon, Christian Lübbert & Francesco FinizioEditor: Paul Macheck Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert