Frances Stark: 'Contemporary artists are hyper-alienated and hyper-competitive'

The LA artist who once had a run-in with Dr Dre has now teamed up with one of his peers – DJ Quik – and is turning the Magic Flute into a hip-hoperaWhen artist Frances Stark was invited to participate in the prestigious 2017 Whitney Biennial, last year, she was in the middle of producing an opera. She had no time for interruptions. It was her first opera: Mozart’s Magic Flute, which she retranslated, re-orchestrated, recorded with a group of young musicians, and turned into a t