Works
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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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Dead Code Anatomies
Marcello Mercado Dead Code Anatomies Installation 1990 – 2025 Dead Code Anatomies is a series of four algorithmic scripts that address the mechanisms by which physical violence is filtered, refracted, and suppressed by systems of procedural representation. Each work is based on a black and white analog photograph taken in 1990 using…
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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, 1-channel video installation, 20 min. 41″ (loop) stereo 4:3 black/white/color 2014 This is a post-documentary video work created in 2014, situated somewhere between experimental documentary and expanded documentary practices. The footage was discovered by chance: anonymous webcam streams from users who communicated silently through gestures…
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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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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…
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Marcello Mercado – AI – Books – Photography
Marcello Mercado AI – Books Marcello Mercado What I mean to say: There is a war on Was ich damit sagen will: Es herrscht Krieg 398 pages EX_AI-Book 2024 Marcello Mercado High volumes of Post-Post-After-After AI-Book, 623 pages 2024 Marcello…
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Paintings
Marcello Mercado Paintings Fractured SyntaxPaintings at the Threshold of Code and Gesture Marcello Mercado’s paintings invite us into a space where form resists containment. Their surfaces are layered, fractured and shifting – an architecture of marks that seems both deliberate and destabilised. These works do not seek resolution. They pulse with the residual…
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Marcello Mercado – The Hypergaussian War – IA Film Animation – 2025
IA Film Installation, color, sound, 73 minutes 03″, 2025.
