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Marcello Mercado, Paisajes con vacas, Performance, 2012
Marcello Mercado Paisajes con vacas 7´52″ colour stereo Performance 2012
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Curves, compost, forecasts and closures, Performance, 2020
Marcello Mercado Curves, compost, forecasts and closures 10´51” color stereo Performance 2020 This performance series unfolds as a living archive of the Covid-19 pandemic, gathering and reactivating visual traces through biological processes, soft systems, permaculture strategies, and new media practices. The project does not aim to document the pandemic through…
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Marcello Mercado, Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, 2008
Marcello Mercado Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies 18´color stereo 2008 In 2007 I made a double intervention at the Documenta in Kassel: 1) I took red poppies from Sanja Ivekovic’s work «Poppy Field» and extracted the DNA…
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Marcello Mercado, To paint with DNA, Performance, 2016
Marcello Mercado To paint with DNA Performance (Fragment) 2016
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Marcello Mercado, Dead dogs don´t bite, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Dead dogs don´t bite 15´58″ colour stereo Performance 2004
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Marcello Mercado, Primordial soup, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Primordial Soup 7 min. 57 sec. stereo 4:3 color Performance 2004
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Marcello Mercado, Primordial hunters, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Primordial hunters 12´07″, stereo, 4:3, color Performance 2004
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Index – Generator, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Index – Generator 24´color stereo Performance 2004 In this performative intervention, the artist read at a table located within the exposed foundations of the former Kölnischer Kunstverein—a void left by the demolition of a space once dedicated to critical art practices. The table, possibly a remnant of the original…
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Tilman Peschel and Marcello Mercado, Akkord (Time rate work), Performance, 2012
Marcello Mercado – Tilman Peschel Akkord (Time rate work) 27min. 42″, 4:3, colour 2012
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Marcello Mercado, Discussing with you some very important scientific newspaper of the day, Performance, 1994
Marcello Mercado Discussing with you some very important scientific newspaper of the day Performance 1994
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Marcello Mercado, Politik, Performance, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 1999
Marcello Mercado Politik Performance Academy of Media Arts Cologne 1999–2001–2020 Politik (1999–2001–2020) is a performance that was first realized in 1999 at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln. It was restaged live in São Paulo in 2001 and reactivated online in 2020 as part of Confinements, a curatorial…
