TECHNO. Forward Female Techno Culture

For the entire afternoon, from 2 to 6pm, expert art mediators will welcome visitors in the museum rooms for “Conversations about Art’”, informal exchanges on the works presented in the “Techno” exhibition and contemporary art in general.

At 5pm guided tours of the exhibition will be held in Italian with Roberta Pedrini, and in German with Brita Köhler (reservations are required and can be made by writing to bookshop@museion.it o tel. 0471 223413).

From 3 to 5pm Museion invites the public to take part in “Disc Women”. This workshop, organised in collaboration with the Merano-based Jungle Music Incubator Youth Center focuses on women, the electronic music scene and, in particular, DJing, that is to say, the art of mixing sounds performed by disc jockeys in clubs and discos. This workshop, led by Fabian Carano aka Toni Telefoni will touch on the basic techniques of DJing, including looping, special effects and mixing with CDs and vinyl. It also provides tips on how to select and mix genres, tell stories with music and find your own style. The meeting will examine other aspects, too, like training and the empowerment of women in the music industry and on the club scene, especially in a sector like DJing, where men have always predominated. In this sense, the workshop will be the first step in the creation of a network of women DJs in Alto Adige. “Disc Women” is open to girls aged 14 upwards, adult women, trans* and non-binary people, and anyone else who is interested in DJing or already a DJ, but wants to learn more. Admission is free, but reservations are required (write to bookshop@museion.it or call 0471 223413. Maximum number of participants: 10. Languages: Italian and German).

Female empowerment and presence on the electronic music scene will also be the focus of a discussion that will take place between 6 and 7.30pm both in-person and online, on the social media channels: Museion Facebook, Instagram and YouTube (in German). How has the electronic music scene developed in Alto Adige? What can we learn about creating a network of women DJs in Alto Adige from urban centres like Vienna and Berlin? These issues will be discussed by Elisabeth Falkensteiner, who is both a DJ and curator of visual arts, sound and language for international projects, like the 2021 Vienna Biennial, Sounds of the Living, Angewandte Festival 2018 & 2019, and Judith Daporta, artist, DJ, and organiser of alternative events like the Foehrentanz-Festival as part of “the VirusClub-Collective”. They will be joined by Valeria Merlini, DJ, avant-turntablist, sound artist and curator from Berlin, and Hannes Goetsch, an organiser of cultural events, creator and strategic head of “BASIS - Vinschgau Venosta”, and founder of the music collective “RVTK - revoltekk”. The meeting will be moderated by Martina Kreuzer, editor of the television show dF-das Frauenmagazin, and introduced by Bart van der Heide. The Museion Director will talk about the museum and his role as agent and promoter of female techno culture.

The Art Day will end with a DJ set live streamed on Museion social media channels with DJs Alpi, Nirak and Misonica.