Ale Hop (Alejandra Cárdenas) is a Peruvian-born artist based in Berlin. She began her career in the 2000s in Lima’s underground music scene. Her body of work includes diverse formats such as live shows, albums, multimedia artworks and research. Whether alone, maneuvering an intricate repertoire of electric guitar techniques, or collaborating with other artists, her live performances always have an immersive and affective character. Last year she launched two collaborative practices: Agua Dulce, with percussionist Laura Robles, radically mutating Afro-Peruvian rhythms (picked as global album of the month by The Guardian), and with the sound artist Tatiana Heuman, experimenting with self-built South American clay instruments and storytelling. She also co-founded the festival Radical Sounds Latin America (of which she was co-curator from 2019 to 2021) and, nowadays, initiated the editorial platform Contingent Sounds, aiming at facilitating critical discourses and artistic research. She has shown her work in spaces such as UNSOUND (2022), Sonic Acts (2022), CTM Festival (2022), Taiwan C-LAB (2022), REWIRE (2021), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2021), New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (2021), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2020), Somerset House Studios (2019), Heroines of Sound (2019), among others.
