Performance

  • Live Streamings from Dolmens: DNA-Performance-Installation-Soundart

    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…

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

    Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera

        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.…

  • Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies

    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…

  • transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus

    transferring, storing, sharing and hybriding: The perfect humus

    Series of Ephemeral Video-Installations. 2010-2011.

  • 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.

  • Trace, Burn, Archive, 2005 – 2008

    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…

  • 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 10´51” color stereo Performance 2020       https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/429117688  

  • Marcello Mercado, Jumping – Drawing, Performance, 2002

              Marcello Mercado Jumping – Drawing Performance 2002 Denmark