/Members: Carola Dertnig in conversation with Sabeth Buchmann

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. In this episode you will hear the artist Carola Dertnig in conversation with the art historian and art critic Sabeth Buchmann, recorded on 16 April 2024.

Carola Dertnig lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She has served as professor of performative art at the University of Fine Arts Vienna since 2006. She took part in the 1997 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York and taught as a visiting professor at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles. Dertnig’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the State Gallery of Lower Austria, Krems; Galerie CRONE, Vienna/Berlin; Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna; the Solyanka Gallery, Moscow; the REDCAT CalArts Theater, Los Angeles; the MoMA PS1, New York; Artists Space, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; and the Secession, Vienna. In 2024 her work is represented in a midcareer exhibition Dancing through Life in OK_Linz including a publication. In 2013 she received the Austrian Art Award.

In 2005, Dertnig published the book Let’s Twist Again: If You Can’t Think It, Dance It, a study of the local history of performance in Vienna from 1960 to the present (coedited with Stefanie Seibold). From 2009 to 2011, she participated in the research project Troubling Research: Performing Knowledge in the Arts, and published her own book Perform Perform Perform (2011). Performing the Sentence: Views on Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts, which she coedited with Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, was published in 2014. 

Sabeth Buchmann (Berlin/Vienna) has taught the history of modern and postmodern art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2004. She is a coeditor of PoLyPen, a series of books on art criticism and political theory (b_books, Berlin), and a member of the advisory board of Texte zur Kunst, the European Kunsthalle as well as the documenta Institute and publishes in art journals, anthologies, and exhibition catalogues on a regular basis. In 2008, she won the Austrian Art Critics Award. Recent publications: Kunst als Infrastruktur (2023) and two volumes she coedited, Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Critique (2022) and Putting Rehearsals to the Test: Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film. Theater, Theory, and Politics (2016).

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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: Carola Dertnig & Sabeth Buchmann

Editor: Paul Macheck

Programmed by the board of the Secession

Produced by Christian Lübbert, Bettina Spörr