Performances
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OPEN GENOME ACTIONS
Bio-Performances 2000–2012 OPEN GENOME ACTIONS is a series of bio-performances in which fragments of the artist’s DNA are extracted, dispersed and transmitted across natural and technological environments. 1. DNA for Free, 2014 2. My DNA Belongs to Me, 2014 3. DNA Under Weight, 2004 4. Capital Circulation, 2000 5. The…
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Searching for the Short Version of Hamlet
Performance and photographic sequenceElsinore / Helsingør, Denmarkc. 1999–2000 Searching for the Short Version of Hamlet forms part of a broader investigation into the compression of cultural systems that runs throughout Marcello Mercado’s early work around the turn of the millennium. Developed in temporal proximity to SUMMA – Notationen, the piece explores how…
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Live streamings from Dolmens, 2011
Live streamings from Dolmens DNA-performance-installation- soundart (LIVE) 19/06/11 14:17 PM Place: Flintinge, Denmark Dolmen 2: 54° 44´23.99” N 11° 47´23.36” E elev. 4m Live Streamings from the Dolmens (2011) Live Streamings from the Dolmens is an experimental radio work that unfolds at the intersection of archaeology, genomics, and transmission infrastructures.…
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Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies,
„Synthetic genomic readings on breathing worms“ or “Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies” Videoinstallation x 2 screens or 2 monitors Do not disturb signs x 2 Synthetic Genomic Readings on Breathing WormsorMaking Consistent Volatile Ideas by Broadcasting Bio-Information through Plants, DNA, Worms and Radio Frequencies…
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DELETE – Sprache, 2013
Marcello Mercado (m)2 · DELETE Sprache01 DELETE Sprache, 2013 DELETE Sprache (2013) is a work situated at the threshold between language, voice, and symbolic collapse. The piece consists of the artist articulating an invented language—constructed through verbal excess, guttural sounds, and continuous vocal flow—performed…
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8 hectáreas, 2008, Performance
8 hectares, 2008 Remote performance / algorithmic transduction / collaboration 8 hectares is conceived as a distributed and collaborative operation of territorial translation, carried out remotely between Marcello Mercado’s studio in Cologne, Germany, and the Symbolon laboratory in Unquillo, Córdoba, Argentina, in collaboration with the artist Sebastián Sánchez Zelada. The work is not…
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Wir alle vermissen die D-Mark oder Clara Schumann´s DNA Konzert, 2008
Wir alle vermissen die D-Mark oder Clara Schumann´s DNA Konzert, 2008 Part 01 https://archive.org/details/WirAlleVermissenDieD-markOderClaraSchumannsDnaKonzert Part 02 https://archive.org/details/WirAlleVermissenDieD-markOderClaraSchumannsDnaKonzertPart02 Part 03 https://archive.org/details/WirAlleVermissenDieD-markOderClaraSchumannsDnaKonzertPart03 Part 04 https://archive.org/details/WirAlleVermissenDieD-markOderClaraSchumannsDnaKonzertPart04 Wir alle vermissen die D-Mark oder Clara Schumann’s DNA Konzert (2008) is a work that unfolds across bio-material, sound, and performative circulation.…
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VIDEO SELECTION
VIDEOART Video works — Selection The body of video works developed from the 1990s to the present is articulated not as a sequence of discrete pieces, but as an operational field in which moving images function as a system of inscription. Video does not appear here as a representational medium or a…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
In Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, the book is presented as a physical apparatus in which biological processes, algorithmic operations and sensory translations converge to form a tangible sequence that defies the neutrality of the archive. Each page acts as a threshold between systems of inscription. Genetic sequences…
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Das Kapital: Bell, Marx and the cycles of absorption, 2005
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital: Bell, Marx and the cycles of absorption Performance/ Installation 2005 The performance, which took place in 2005 as part of the Das Kapital series, unfolded in two phases. First came the installation phase, which involved the material decomposition of Daniel Bell’s The…
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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.…