4.2.08

A VANISHING QUANTITY IN THE MATHEMATICAL SENSE


"A vanishing quantity in the mathematical sense"
by Marcello Mercado and Sebastián Sánchez Zelada
Video performance. 12min.
Colonia-Alemania 1999.

 "All mysteries which lead to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and the comprehension of practice" Marx
In building their argument, 2 performers give a brief action-serial transporting pythagorean mathematical objects, following the Darwinian process: The sitting-ape posture, the acquicition of the erect posture, the walking patterns.