Arca repeatedly implores the listener to "speak for your self-states," amidst an eruption of artillery fire and thundering kicks. "I'm asking for recognition that we have multiple selves without denying that there's a singular unit," she says, “I want to be seen as an ecosystem of minor self-states without being stripped of the dignity of being a whole." For Arca, it's about bringing together all of these different facets of (the) self and her work without having to feel beholden to any given one.
For the video of Nonbinary, Arca collaborated with visual artist Frederik Heyman.
Video credits:
Directed by Frederik Heyman
Concept and scenario by Frederik Heyman and Arca
Symbolic gestation by Alejandra Ghersi

A boundary-breaking musician, producer, visual artist, and more, origins;;y from Venezuela, Alejandra Ghersi's work as Arca defines the cutting edge of those fields. Her fluency in different media echoes how effortlessly her music borrowed from various genres while defying easy classification: the rumbling, rattling percussion that became a hallmark of her style had roots in hip-hop, noise, IDM, and Venezuelan party music. Ghersi's approach was distinctive enough to be immediately recognizable even when she produced music by artists as prominent as Kanye West, Björk, and Frank Ocean. Arca's own music was even more adventurous, whether she subverted the sounds of hip-hop in unapologetically queer ways on her early EPs or skillfully balanced her experimental and emotional sides on her first full-length, 2014's Xen. Ghersi reinvented herself with each album, emphasizing the density and volatility of her music on 2015's Mutant and breaking it wide open with the outpourings of 2017's Arca, her first work to feature her voice. With the five-album Kick project that spanned 2020 and 2021, she reassembled pop into new, complex yet intuitive forms.

Arca repeatedly implores the listener to "speak for your self-states," amidst an eruption of artillery fire and thundering kicks. "I'm asking for recognition that we have multiple selves without denying that there's a singular unit," she says, “I want to be seen as an ecosystem of minor self-states without being stripped of the dignity of being a whole." For Arca, it's about bringing together all of these different facets of (the) self and her work without having to feel beholden to any given one.
For the video of Nonbinary, Arca collaborated with visual artist Frederik Heyman.
Video credits:
Directed by Frederik Heyman
Concept and scenario by Frederik Heyman and Arca
Symbolic gestation by Alejandra Ghersi

Nonbinary

Zizi - Queering the Dataset #1

Grave markers of tetrapod

Celestial Perception

Gemini

INCARNATION I ☥

The Magician

@Username

Conduits

The freedom of being yourself, oneself or an other is often talked about when using online platforms such as social media, gaming or AR/VR experiments – The idea of having an alterego and being more than the self IRL is something that many individual from communities either being from a specific ethnic minority and/or queer have seeked when not being accepted in their societal environment. The web becomes an escape and a way of re-building/creating one’s identity and story. This selection is dedicated to queerness and being FREE!

Self-Portraits 0.3 and the Avatars

This selection focuses on the idea of being yourself online.

Nonbinary

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