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How to explain to a dead mole the difference between…? Performance, 2001
Marcello Mercado How to explain to a dead mole the difference between a 2000 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class SLK 320 2dr convertible and a 2001 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class SLK320 2dr Roadster? Performance Köln, 2001 . In 2001 I acquired a taxidermied mole at a fair. This seemingly trivial object became the catalyst for a…
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Azimuth 77, Performance, 2006
Marcello Mercado and Sebastián Sánchez Zelada Azimuth 77 21min. 26″, 4:3; stereo, color Performance 2006 Satellite art, bioart, performance, soundart, sculpture, drawings, photography The performance project involved the extraction, transfer, and preservation of genetic material (DNA) from Arion rufus (commonly known as the red slug), along with…
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Marcello Mercado, Biographie, Performance, 2005
Marcello Mercado Biographie 3´20″ color sound Performance 2005
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Marcello Mercado, Paisajes con vacas, Performance, 2012
Marcello Mercado Paisajes con vacas 7´52″ colour stereo Performance 2012
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Curves, compost, forecasts and closures, Performance, 2020
Marcello Mercado Curves, compost, forecasts and closures 10´51” color stereo Performance 2020 This performance series unfolds as a living archive of the Covid-19 pandemic, gathering and reactivating visual traces through biological processes, soft systems, permaculture strategies, and new media practices. The project does not aim to document the pandemic through…
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Marcello Mercado, Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies, 2008
Marcello Mercado Making consistent volatile ideas by broadcasting bio-information through plants, DNA, worms and Radio Frequencies 18´color stereo 2008 In 2007 I made a double intervention at the Documenta in Kassel: 1) I took red poppies from Sanja Ivekovic’s work «Poppy Field» and extracted the DNA…
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Marcello Mercado, To paint with DNA, Performance, 2016
Marcello Mercado To paint with DNA Performance (Fragment) 2016
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Marcello Mercado, Dead dogs don´t bite, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Dead dogs don´t bite 15´58″ colour stereo Performance 2004
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Marcello Mercado, Primordial soup, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Primordial Soup 7 min. 57 sec. stereo 4:3 color Performance 2004
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Marcello Mercado, Primordial hunters, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Primordial hunters 12´07″, stereo, 4:3, color Performance 2004
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Index – Generator, Performance, 2004
Marcello Mercado Index – Generator 24´color stereo Performance 2004 In this performative intervention, the artist read at a table located within the exposed foundations of the former Kölnischer Kunstverein—a void left by the demolition of a space once dedicated to critical art practices. The table, possibly a remnant of the original…
