Performances

  • Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015

    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.…

  • DELETE

    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…

  • The Economy of Residues: Temporal Assemblages of Capital and Body

    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…

  • Gödel Suite, 2009

    Gödel Suite, 2009

    1-hour Performance, 2009.

  • A DNA Artifact , 2007

    A DNA Artifact , 2007

          A DNA Artifact Running time: 5 days Performance, 2007 . In 2007, the artist carried out a three-part performative action across distinct European geographies—Munich, Extremadura, and Niederzissen—combining field observation, basic biotechnology, and cultural reflection. Act I began at the Ostfriedhof cemetery in Munich, at the grave of filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A…

  • Gödel Devices and Epistemic Apparatuses

    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…

  • Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements, 2005

    Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements, 2005

      Images become containers; containers become images: A Performance in Seven Movements 2005   Conceptual FrameworkThis performance unfolds within a conceptual triangle: Max Weber’s reading of Calvinism as the ethical substrate of capitalism, John Calvin’s moral rehabilitation of profit through moderation and discipline, and Karl Marx’s critique of capital’s capacity to profit from catastrophe. The…

  • Marcello Mercado, Curves, compost, forecasts and closures, Performance, 2020

    Marcello Mercado, Curves, compost, forecasts and closures, Performance, 2020

              Marcello Mercado Curves, compost, forecasts and closures 10´51” color stereo Performance 2020       https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/429117688  

  • Variations Van Gogh, Installation

    Variations Van Gogh, Installation

                Marcello Mercado Variations Van Gogh Installation 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 Kunsthalle Osnabrück   [+]   Grant for Media Art 2013 of the Foundation of Lower Saxonyat the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media…

  • Marcello Mercado, Jumping – Drawing,  Performance, 2002

    Marcello Mercado, Jumping – Drawing, Performance, 2002

              Marcello Mercado Jumping – Drawing Performance 2002 Denmark                

  • Marcello Mercado, The information about humans, Performance, 2004

    Marcello Mercado, The information about humans, Performance, 2004

              Marcello Mercado The information about humans Performance – Denmatk 2004                  

  • Human Genome re-Activation – Low Lives 3 International Festival of Live Networked Performances, 2011

    Human Genome re-Activation – Low Lives 3 International Festival of Live Networked Performances, 2011

          Marcello Mercado Human Genome re-Activation Performance Streaming: Low Lives 3 International Festival of Live Networked Performances 5´27″ mono 4:3 colour 2011   30.04.2011 Buenos Aires 16:11h, Los Angeles 12:11h, Berlin 21:11h, Cape Town 21:11h, Salt Lake City 13:11h, Miami 15:11h   keywords: bioart, genome, finger, soundart, genetics, synthetic voice, DNA – Sequence…