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

The polemical LA artist, who has worked with punks and dancehall stars, is now hiring schoolchildren to play Mozart. She explains what’s rotten at the heart of the culture industryWhen 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 musi