[2] As an artist, Mers works through Performative Diagrammatics, a practice that includes elements of installation, facilitation with publics, and video.
[3] Her research draws on close work with others, exploring arts ecologies, and knowing differently, or epistemic diversity.
Work takes place nationally and internationally, for example in residency, conference and exhibition settings.
She studied with Tony Cragg, Klaus Rinke, Günther Uecker and did course work in German Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Pedagogy, Didactics, Philosophy at University of Düsseldorf, University of Cologne, Germany.
Mers continued her studies in 1989-1990 at the University of Chicago where she was a student at large, Graduate School, Committee on the Visual Arts, in association with a grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).