“Performance art” can be a dirty word. “Pretentious” and “impenetrable” are terms that may come to mind. But what about performance art by one of our most unpredictable electronic music provocateurs?

The Venezuelan producer Alejandro Ghersi, known as “Arca,” works on the edge of reality. When he teamed up with the celestial artist Björk to produce her album Vulnicura, he described it as a natural ...

NYC electronic musician Arca follows last year’s debut album Xen today with Mutant, out on Mute (and featured on Rough Trade’s top albums of the year). To celebrate the relase, he out put a brand new ...

Last year, even before the Hudson Yards’s new, massive arts venue The Shed was even finished being built, Arca (aka Alejandra Ghersi) inaugurated the space by performing within the construction site, ...

Arca’s new album Mutant drops next Friday, but the experimental producer stopped by BBC Radio 1 yesterday to share a bunch of new tracks from the upcoming release, appearing on Benji B’s show to ...

At the peak of every Arca live show, the Venezuelan producer born Alejandro Ghersi interrupts his otherwise mute meditations with a scream: “It’s too much for me to take.” That line comes from ...

Though Ghersi’s solo work has always existed largely outside the mainstream, he’s produced for artists like Kanye West, Bjork, and FKA twigs. In those songs — like Kanye’s “Hold My Liquor” and “Blood ...

In an abandoned bank vault in Manhattan’s financial district back in May, Björk took the stage — in secret — for a DJ set. Face occluded by just one of her many bejeweled headdresses, the godmother of ...

Arca announced on Twitter this morning that he has a new full-length on the way. It's called Mutant, and it's due out in the "late fall." This will be Arca's first album since Xen, which came out in ...

Arca is set to the follow up on last year’s Xen project. Slated for release on November 20 via Mute, the project will features previously released tracks “Vanity” and “Soichiro” and also feature “EN” ...