Marcos Nacar

Statement

Marcos Nacar is a performer/dancer/maker. His works take the form of dance, words, installations, videos, and interventions. He starts from de quotidian and uses physical, written, and visual devices to generate changes of perspective.

His work deals with the landscape, memory, and illegality as main topics. He is currently busy with an archive of a deceased woman; with a short film about the lost years and exploring the relations between violence and sexual desire in the socialization process of male-identifying bodies.

He founded in 2019, together with Matilde Bassetti, the collective Nomellores. Dealing specifically with the digital and the territory. They’ve performed and intervened in different spaces such as Sicily, Catalonia, Berlin, and online, producing mostly site-specific work.

GlogauAIR Project

“I don’t know Carmen” is an artistic research based on the personal archive of Carmen. In June 2018 when I was living in Barcelona I found hundreds of photographs, letters, and postcards from her. Someone had emptied her flat after her death. I have developed an almost dangerous attraction to melancholy. Since the death of my father when I was six, photographs, diaries and personal objects have been the only way to get to know him.

Carmen was born in 1935, one year before the Spanish Civil war started. We don’t have records of her until the ’50s, where she starts to archive herself. Every August she made a trip to a European Capital. Almost no men appear in her pictures. She is always with her female friends. They traveled following their religious interests and it feels like they created a feminist catholic community, where men would be excluded.

I want to reflect on the practice of creating personal archives as a way to portrait oneself. I would like to stage this self-portrait to underline the performativity of this action and give value to one of the last generations that have archived themselves in analog. The only trace from her on the digital world is her obituary: published on a webpage that also offers services to erase social profiles of people that passed away; Support to collect live insurances; and online wills.

Installation and Performance.

CV Summary

• Born in Barcelona, in 1993, is a dancer, performer and maker based in Berlin.
• In 2021 he received the special initial grant from Akademie der Künste to support his artistic research.
• In 2019 founded the collective Nomellores, creating the pieces WISH YOU WERE HERE (2019) online performance; Sotto il ponte che pugnale la Sicilia (2020), a gathering organized for the youth of the city of Alcamo, Sicily, hosted by the collective Landescape ; Tierra Trazada (2020), a collective walk with the inhabitant of Alzina, Catalogna, hosted by the festival Natures20’
• In 2018 he created his first solo “MENU”, and presented it in Tanzfabrik.
• He is a founder member and writer in “Zinecolectivo”. Magazine and artists collective.
• From 2014 until 2018 he worked as a performer for the social theatre company, Impactat teatre, following the work of Augusto Boalt, theatre of the oppressed.
• He studied the programs Danceintensive at Tanzfabrik, Berlin; Inside movement at Tragant dansa, Barcelona. And he also completed a bachelor in law at University of Barcelona.

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