Performances

  • Gödel 1, 2, 3

    Gödel 1, 2, 3

      Bio-performances, 2000–2003   This work operates as a distributed bio-performative system in which biological matter, formal logic, and urban surveillance are brought into direct operational alignment. The procedure begins with a controlled ingestion process: Californian worms are fed with material derived from the Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, reduced to pulp and reconfigured as a biological…

  • 13. Videobrasil: «Politik» –  Performance by Marcello Mercado

    13. Videobrasil: «Politik» – Performance by Marcello Mercado

    21.09.2001       13.Videobrasil: «Politik», Performance by Marcello Mercado     With performances that challenge the traditional concepts of the modality, Videobrasil continues this year with what has become a permanent feature: stimulus to artists who are researching hybrids resulting from the combination and dialogue between image, movement, music, dance, the body itself and…

  • Marx – Engels revisited

    Marx – Engels revisited

    Netart / Database performance / Early web intervention Marcello Mercado Marx – Engels Revisited (2001) Marcello Mercado This work operates within early networked archival environments that simulate access to burial sites through searchable interfaces. The system organizes identity through fields: name, date, location. The body is absent. Presence is produced through retrieval. Marx and Engels…

  • PERFORMANCE: Dead Dogs don´t bite

    PERFORMANCE: Dead Dogs don´t bite

    17.02.2000       Marcello Mercado Dead Dogs don´t bite 2000 Installation-Net-streaming-Performance         Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Köln, Germany     Copyright Photos Tilman Peschel

  • Netart Performance: Documenting the snow

    Netart Performance: Documenting the snow

    10.02.2000     Marcello Mercado Netart Performance: Documenting the snow CCTV Performance 2000        

  • PERFORMANCE: Understanding Das Kapital

    PERFORMANCE: Understanding Das Kapital

    23.01.2000     Marcello Mercado Understanding das Kapital     Bio – Peformance (on/off-line) 2000 Köln, Germany

  • Präsentationswoche an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln

    05.07.1999 – 09.07.1999     Präsentationswoche an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln   [+] pdf       Positionen Vorführungen Ereignisse         Marcello Mercado, Politik, Performance     Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln Academy of Media Arts Cologne Peter-Welter-Platz 2 D-50676 Köln Germany              

  • En torno a la acción. Arte de acción 1960-1990

    En torno a la acción. Arte de acción 1960-1990

    13.05.1999 – 11.07.1999     En torno a la acción. Arte de acción 1960-1990   Curador Rodrigo Alonso     Arte de acción 1960-1990 fue una exposición curada por Rodrigo Alonso, que tuvo lugar en el año1999 en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Fue la primera retrospectiva sobre arte de acción y…

  • Cronología de Performance Art Argentina

    Cronología de Performance Art Argentina

    12.12.1998     Image: Architect Adrián Manavella       Cronología de Performance Art Argentina     Performances: Archivo 1998                            

  • Goethe Institute Córdoba, Argentina

    Goethe Institute Córdoba, Argentina

      17-23-04.1998     Marcello Mercado Contact with Dead animal Performance – Installation     Goethe – Institut Córdoba Argentina Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 646 X5000JHT Córdoba     Like some substance in a solution,l split myself into electrically positive or negative succesions under the rule of quartz lamps and the espectroscope… Most comfortable and appropriate,…