Installations
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Live Streamings from Dolmens: DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart
Marcello Mercado Live Streamings from Dolmens, 2011 DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart Flintinge, Denmark — 19/06/11 14:17 PM Live Streamings from Dolmens unfolds as a quiet yet potent act of temporal entanglement. Beneath the ancient stones of Flintinge—dolmens whose origins drift somewhere between archaeology and speculation—the artist instigates a dialogue between…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
THE DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA GROUP The transdisciplinary DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA GROUP consists of project leaders Katharina Gsöllpointner (media theoretician), Ruth Schnell (artist), Romana Schuler (art historian) and artists Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel. During the research process invited artists and scientists will participate as special guests in the context of certain topics and/or project phases.…
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Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies
Marcello Mercado Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, 2007 Bio-Performance / Bio-Installation, 2007 In Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, Marcello Mercado crafts a meditation on mortality, memory, and the biological archive, unfolding across…
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transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus
Series of Ephemeral Video-Installations. 2010-2011.
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DELETE
Marcello Mercado DELETE Interactive Video Installation . In DELETE, language ceases to be a transparent medium for communication and becomes both subject and residue. Conceived in 2012 as an interactive video installation, the project reflects on the impossibility of truly erasing information within digital and mental architectures. Instead, it proposes the invention of…
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The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body
Marcello Mercado The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body 1996 . 2004 The Economy of Residues (2004) is an experimental performance-installation articulating biological material, cognitive labor, and technological obsolescence into an operative system. Through the controlled circulation of human urine collected during readings of Das Kapital, a transitional cash…
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Trace, Burn, Archive, 2005 – 2008
Marcello Mercado Trace, Burn, Archive (2005–2008) Performances Series . In Trace, Burn, Archive, Marcello Mercado conducts a five-part performance series in Denmark and Germany, using his own DNA as both material and message. Between 2005 and 2008, each action explores a different relationship to the body’s trace – its preservation, dispersal, destruction, and…
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How leopards caught leopards
Marcello Mercado How leopards caught leopards, 20 min. 41″, stereo, 4:3, black/white/color, 2014 I found these webcam streams during the final broadcasts of Breaking Bad. Most of them disappeared later. Dead platforms, deleted accounts, broken links. People appeared alone in front of their screens. Smoking, waiting, barely speaking. Sometimes it…
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Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses
Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses: A Performative Construction (Geneva, 2006) In 2006, a performative apparatus was activated within a hotel room in Geneva—an environment operating simultaneously as a spatial container and a neutralized architecture of regulation. The performance constructed a field of epistemic operations based on the formal structure of Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness…
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Variations Van Gogh, Installation
Marcello Mercado Variations Van Gogh multi-channel installation systems 7-channel video installation, drawings, books, photography, sound sculpture, DNA – objects 6 m x 2,50 m 236.2 in x 98.4 in 2012–2015 / ongoing (updated 2026) Grant for Media Art 2013 of the Foundation of Lower Saxonyat the Edith-Russ-Haus…
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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…
