Artist, musician, producer, and trans icon Arca has shared a clip from her performance series Mutant;Destrudo earlier this month which was commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
Directed by Arca, Mutant;Destrudo congregates her close friends and collaborators around a shared vision of creating space to allow for deconstruction of preconceptions. This ambitious new project is steeped in electronic music sound design to induce various states of embodied physicality and synthesize new ways to mediate both the ego and identity at large. The resulting Armory commission continues her ongoing practice of creating instances which merge all forms of creative practice, reexamining the ritual of the concert as a moment of heightened connection between those present.
It’s dystopian, grating and unnerving. Just the way we like things around this time of year!