After seeing the musician and performance artist’s recent show at the Park Avenue Armory, one writer had some questions about what it all meant. Arca’s answers managed to raise even more.
Not much was known about Mutant;Destrudo, Arca’s commission for the Park Avenue Armory, which ran for four nights this October. The Armory website’s description was so enigmatic, my friend and I began jokingly misquoting it to each other, saying we couldn’t wait to “deconstruct preconceived notions, or whatever.” Even the performance dates were hard to understand: Wednesday–Friday shows at 8pm, dark on Saturday, Sunday at 6.
The puzzled audience leaned in, trying to get a peek into what was going on in there—and that effect proved to be among the commission’s main tenets, with white lights blinding the eyes, blackouts enhancing the ears, and guttural techno thumps activating our psychic touch. The music’s inherent fluidity and improvisation made it hard to separate new material from in-the-moment creation, but the set list points to at least three new songs: “Bronze,” “Glass Break,” and “Xeno Genesis.
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