For "Cantata"—a commissioned work for this year’s Pop-Kultur Festival—Eva Bottega, the lesbian singer of the French guitar-pop band Ménades, explores themes of hysteria and religious ecstasy. Drawing inspiration from sources such as the writings of Michel Foucault and forgotten mystics, Bottega—in collaboration with drummer Héloïse Jocqueviel—uses an experimental musical approach to question gender binaries and normative concepts of the body.

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