EDGARDO MERCADO

This work builds upon gravitation theories by Newton, Einstein and Stephen Hawking, and submerges us in an experience which raises questions about the limits of perception; it progresses differentially in time, expanding it, so it renders in its wake a spectral body, an organic body and an undetermined body.

The idea of mass (m), as a result of the sum of individualities in search of the ideal of presenting themselves as a uniform crowd has been the starting point of this proposal, created especially for the Dance Company of IUNA.
In m, the dancers’ bodies acquire a dual purpose, because they are also the generators of the only sound present in the work.

“Recitations” is the result of the intervention of the musical concert for solo voice “Récitations”, composed by Georges Aperghis in 1978.

This work operates on the original space where a musical concert takes place, to transform it in the place where the alterations of different emotional states are shown.

Commissioned by TACEC (Teatro Argentino de La Plata, centro de Experimentación y Creación).

Rotonda is a work singed by speed and precision, which, making use of a concentric design set on the floor carries out a study of the circular space, its infinite transit possibilities and how these can represent an image in time.

Created for the Contemporary Ballet of the Teatro San Martín, season 2009.

Reopened in the Ciudanza Festival 2013 with an independent cast.

What we look at and by whom we are seen, hypertrophy of information, which terminates any possible gaze, the light which dazzles us.

The dissolution of reality through its interpretations, hiding the fact that reality is not reality any more, but simply appearance.

This work was created for the non-conventional space of CETC (Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón – Center for experimentation of the Teatro Colón), season 2009.

This work is based on the aesthetics of the body-information, highlighting the power of new technologies as regulators of our fates and manipulators of perception.

An individual travels through an urban labyrinth until he withdraws into himself in a point of space, stillness comes as an exit, but it is not enough, more can be asked for: to rid himself of his material residue, to be digital, to be information.

Three performers inhabit a cold and fuzzy space, scored by images and beams of light which hit on their bodies, starting a journey against their own presence, which walks the edge between determinism and randomness.

Tierra de Mandelbrot was a part of the Dance Biennial in Lyon 2006

It opened in the III Festival Buenos Aires Danza Contemporánea, and was part of the program for the V Festival Internacional de Teatro de Buenos Aires.

PERFORMANCE INTERVENTIONS TO VIDEO INSTALLATIONS BY AUGUSTO ZANELA.

Picture: AUGUSTO ZANELA