Bettina Wackernagel
- At the ZKM
- 2023
- Biography
Bettina Wackernagel is a curator and trained music theater director with a focus on contemporary music and electronic media. Parallel to her theater work, she has initiated festival formats that illuminate current trends in electronic music and art with social discourses. Her current work focuses on the female pioneers of electronic music and developments by contemporary, predominantly female composers in music, sound and performance art. In 2014, she founded the internationally renowned Heroines of Sound festival, for which she has been the artistic director ever since. The feminist format is internationally renowned and unique in the European festival landscape.
In addition, Wackernagel gives and organizes lectures, workshops and symposia on electronic music, pioneers of electronic music and contemporary curatorial practice at universities and colleges in Germany and abroad. She is a member of national and international juries. Bettina Wackernagel's work has been dignified with awards and grants many times.
Publications:
Heroines of Sound. Feminismus und Gender in Elektronischer Musik, Wolke Verlag, 2019, co-edited with Sabine Sanio.
Never Stop Questioning, Themenheft 114, Heroines of Sound, Positionen, Texte zur aktuellen Musik, Februar 2018.Links:
http://www.heroines-of-sound.com
https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/sabine-sanio-bettina-wackernagel-heroines-of-sound-book/
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-weibliche-elektro-avantgarde-10-jahre-heroines-of-sound-festival-dlf-5a771079-100.html
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/fuenf-jahre-heroines-of-sound-feministisch-und-elektronisch.807.de.html?dram:article_id=454245
https://groove.de/2021/07/01/heroines-of-sound-interview-mit-der-kuenstlerischen-leiterin-bettina-wackernagel/
https://www.gonzocircus.com/heroines-of-sound-2019/
