Most music festivals are built around finished work: artists arrive, play, and move on. Pop-Kultur’s Commissioned Works take a different approach, bringing the festival into the process of making the work in the first place. A closer look at the people behind the strand, and at Alejandra Cárdenas’ commissioned performance, reveals what that can mean…
Berlin’s Pop-Kultur festival brings home international appreciators of German music and sets them alongside unmissable locals – the ideal way to take stock of today’s pop culture and what that term even means, writes Hayden Merrick.
