13.07.1995
13. WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ARTISTS:
A Max Almy & Terri Yarbrow, Julian Alvarez, Laurie Anderson, Arnaldo Antunes – Celia Catunda – Kiko Mistrorigo & Zaba Moreau, Ars Electronica Festival ’94 B Charles Atlas, George Barber, Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatic, Sadie Benning, Daphne Blancherie, Klaus vom Broch C Robert Cahen, Inês Cardoso, Seoungho Cho, Eric Choisy, Jem Cohen D Phlippe van Damme, Kristine Diekman, Marcel Dinahet, Chris Dodge, Cheryl Donegan (1), Cheryl Donegan (2) E E.T. Baby F Elisabetta Filocamo, European Media Art Festival ’94, Kip Fulbeck G Peter Gabriel, Patrick De Geetere, R.G.H. Gerlach, Knut Gerwers, Ghislaine Gohard, Kiko Goifman, Shalom Gorewitz, Johan Grimonprez & Christine de Smedt, Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid (1), Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid (2), H Hänzel & Gretzel (1), Hänzel & Gretzel (2), Nelson Henricks, José Antonio Hernández-Diez, Madelon Hooykaas & Elsa Stansfield I José Iranzo J Therese Jacobsen, Kis Jacobsen & Boris Bouscayrol, K.P. Jayasankar & Anjali Monteiro, Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel, Torben Skjødt Jensen K Gerald v.d. Kaap & Mediamatic, Sei Kamaza & Hatsune Ohtsu, Stephen Kemp, Sonia van Kerkhoff, Jan Krogsgard, Shigeko Kubota, George Kuchar L Joseph Lefèvre, Eric Mattson & Alain Mongeau, Sabrina Lindemann M Steven Matheson, Mediamatic, Marcello Mercado, Merel Mirage, Egbert Mittelstädt, Milla Moilanen, Montparnasse Multimedia & Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Robert Morin N Erik Nerinckx O Atushi Ogata, Lennaart van Oldenborgh, Toine Ooms & Creative Disk, Toine Ooms & Stroom HCBK P Alix Pearlstein, Juvenal Pereira & Fábio Almeida, Sylvie Pérouème, Antonio Perumanes & Femando Marquez, Keith Piper, Natasa Prosenc, Joan Pueyo R Daniel Reeves, Eveline Renault, The Residents, Nina Rodriguez, Ane Mette Ruge, Caroline Rye S Sedjal Sadek, Philip Schmid, Kolin Schult, Heizo Schulze, Secretaria da Cultura do Estado de Sao Paulo, George Snow, Imogen Stidworthy, Mike Stubbs T Tomoko Take, Leslie Thornton, Transit & Triton V Andrei Ventslova W Gregg Wagstaff Y Gabriel Yuvonne & Pablo Jauregui Z ZKM, Angela Zumpe
Marcello Mercado
«Emptiness» («El Vacío»)
videoart, 14minutes, 1994
Das Verhältnis zwischen menschlichen Körpern, Macht und Religion.
«Religion, Medicine and Sport all exercise power over our bodies.
Mercado attempts an analysis of
these regimes and their ultimate meeting point in death”
(13th World Wide Video Festival, Netherlands, 1995)
“This work visually meditates the relationship between bodies, power and religion”
(22nd Athens Int. Film+Video Festival. USA. 1995)
“Mercado , en particular, supera sus trabajos previos cruzando imágenes tomadas en una morgue
y el sermón histérico de un pastor, con un crudo texto propio, para lograr un impácto que resulta
seco, directo, y genuinamente perturbador.”
(Fernando Martín Peña, Las cartas sobre la mesa. Revista Film, page 54. Buenos Aires, Oct-Nov 1994)
“El Vacío choca mas não apenas pelas imagens fortes e pouco frequentemente
visíveis nas telas; ele choca principalmente pela força com que consegue colocar
a fragilidade do humano. Nesse sentido é o trabalho mais francamente anti-romantico
e anti-antropocêntrico que já vi”
(Arlindo Machado, October 1994)
“Mercado stellt eine Parabel über den Einfluß von Religion,
Medizin und Sport auf unseren Geist
und Körper vor. Eine Analyse dieser drei “Regimes” und deren ultimatives
Aufeinandertreffen im Tod”
(Landes Galerie. Reihevideokunst. Videopolitik.
LandesMuseum Francisco-Calorinum. Linz. 1995) [+]
