21.09.2001

 

 

 

13.Videobrasil: «Politik», Performance by Marcello Mercado

 

 

With performances that challenge the traditional concepts of the modality, Videobrasil continues this year with what has become a permanent feature: stimulus to artists who are researching hybrids resulting from the combination and dialogue between image, movement, music, dance, the body itself and scenic space. In this edition, Alexandre da Cunha, Eder Santos, Luiz Duva and Marcello Mercado – the latter prize winner at 12th Videobrasil – are representatives of this live form of expression in constant transformation. The programme, varied and of various approaches, advances the Festival’s idea of promoting a kind of permanent thinking laboratory.

Argentinean artist Marcello Mercado brings work of impact, in which his orifices, his own body and a politicized discourse are key elements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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INCARCERATION, 2021

 

 

https://contemporaryand.com/es/events/confinamentos

 

 

Is it possible to speak of the politicization of #incarceration? Punitive crime policies are the political, social and economic products of violent States and highly hierarchized societies. Incarceration also constitutes an authoritarian technology that centers around torture. The body is at the core of the Argentinian artist #MarcelloMercado’s investigation of manipulation, vigilance, and violence, alluding to the torture of citizens by the Argentinian military during the country’s dictatorship, and eliciting reflections on the imposition of fear and the relationship between physical and symbolic confinement. The performance was staged at the 13th edition of Videobrasil Festival and its record is part of #Confinements, curated by #JulianaBorges, on show at videobrasil.online (link in bio)

 

 

 

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