Marcos Nacar
© Vanni Bassetti
Marcos Nacar is a Catalan dance and performance artist, and independent researcher based in Berlin. He has a background in more theoretical disciplines such as law and philosophy. Nacar explores dance and performance as documentary media, taking the literary genre of autofiction as a reference, he generates scenarios where fact and fiction intersect to explore a specific theme. He works mainly with movement and video, using poetry and text as a support to contextualize and concretize the meaning of his work.
Influenced by posthumanist perspectives, he is interested in our species' relationship with the landscape, and in exploring states of presence and absence and their translation into dance and performance. In March 2024, his short film The lost years, premiered at the cinedans festival, in the documentary video dance category. His archival research I don’t know Carmen reflects on memory, presence, and absence through the archive of Carmen Passols, found in the streets in Barcelona in 2018 shortly after her death and it has been supported by Lake studios (made in berlin residency 2023), Akademie der Künste (Initial grant 2021) and Glogauair (Berlin guest resident 2021). Nacar participates in different artistic collectives in Berlin: Nomellores, a performative duo with whom he develops the project FUGA and One day my teeth; Zine, a writing and editing collective and the collective inaninstant, which has been working with the instantaneous composition of movement and poetry since 2020, generating spaces for encounters and dance around the practice.