So often artists are described as “pushing boundaries”, but very few can hold a candle to what Arca has been exploring during his recent New York performances. Visually, conceptually and performance-wise they have been claiming a new space, one that is already making the rest of the world gravitate towards exciting, beautiful, sometimes terrifying new territories. Collaborating with Belgian visual artist Frederik Heyman is a perfect fit, portraying highly intimate stories in a multi-layered 3D environment in which every detail is constructed and every aspect is revealing of some sort of personal truth. The @@@@@ official album drop is happening tomorrow, but this is your chance to submerge yourself in the 62-minute single stream right now.

Directed by Frederik Heyman

Symbolic Gestation by Arca

Concept and Scenario by Frederik Heyman and Arca

Quote Arca: “@@@@@ is a transmission broadcasted into this world from a speculative fictional universe in which the fundamentally analogue format of FM pirate radio remains one of few means to escape authoritarian surveillance powered by a hostage sentience gestated by a post-singularity AI. The host of the show, known as DIVA EXPERIMENTAL lives across multiple bodies in space in virtue of her persecution- in order to kill her, one would first have to find all of her bodies. The bodies that host her carry fetishes for paralinguistics, breaking the fourth wall and nurturing a mutant faith in love in the face of fear.”