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Ari Merten (*1987, GDR) is an intermedia artist based in Berlin. Their practice revolves around music, exploring personal history, identity, and collective experience.
Scenic Concert
Love Songs For a New Future 2021
Video
Sketches For a New Love Song 2021
EP/ Music Video
Cake/ Bel Air 2020
Hybrid Performance
Peeling Fruit in Front of Strangers
2020
Dance PerformanceNudes
2019
Audio Installation
Clitorian Reading Room2019
Live Visuals
Bodies of Discourse2017
Desktop Performance
What’s Good?2017
Video Installation
The Secret Life of Arabia2015
EP/ Music VideoCake/ Bel Air
2020
Cake is a celebration of encounters — a multi-layered sonic body that, through intimate lyrics, offers insights into the lived realities of the participating artists. The four tracks are as eclectic as their origins: acid, ballroom, and grime merge with acoustic fragments of thunder and exploding Molotov cocktails, creating a dense, symbolically charged soundscape. This EP is a radical manifesto — an act of artistic resistance that negotiates the poetics of everyday rebellion and the vision of both individual and collective liberation.ketches for a New Love Song was produced for the Spy On Me #3 festival at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, which explored the idea of New Communities. In collaboration with visual artist Lotte Meret, the video and sound piece navigates the emotional aftershocks of a breakup as a metaphor for post-intimacy in a digitized world. Through spoken word, ambient textures, and fragmented memories, it investigates how love, loss, and loneliness circulate within algorithmic spaces and mediated relationships.
Listen to Cake EP on Bandcamp
Cake EP
All tracks produced by Ari
Featured artists:baby punk, Cousin, Elle Fierce, Lamb Kebab
Vocal mixing on "Swampy" by Hang Linton
Mastering for "Bel Air", "Expensive Kunt" and "Swampy"
by Queer Ear Mastering
Mastering for "Burn" by MADPREMIUM Mastering
Label: acting in concert
Cover Art/ Press Pics
Photos: Nuša Hernavs
Styling: Bass Jjoorr
Hair and Make-up: Darja Crainiucenco
Nails: Camilla Volbert
Cake: Steinkampf Flower Cakes
Graphic design: Anja Kaiser
Special Thanks: Sandy Brede & Helen Paul
Video for Bel Air
Directed and edited by: Ari Merten
Lead actress: Elle Fierce
Choreographer: Fran Diaz
DOP: Felix Schütze
Selfie Cam: Rachel de la Torre
Graphics: Anja Kaiser
Production assistant: Lila Steinkampf
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