Katarina Zdjelar

artistiek onderzoek - audiovisueel

Katarina Zdjelar grew up in Belgrade and is based in Rotterdam. Working mainly in the medium of video, her work explores the way one body encounters another as a site of resistance and possibility, pointing to the fragile agency of collective action in the present. Voice, music, sound and language have been the core interests throughout her practice. Her most recent works look at potentials and legacies of pacifist (proto) feminist practices, including that of Käthe Kollwitz and Dore Hoyer. Zdjelar holds an MA in Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, she is a graduate of the University of Arts Belgrade and has completed a two year residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Zdjelar represented Serbia at the 53rd Venice Biennale and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally at such venues as 11th Berlin Biennale, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Frieze Foundation, London; Casino Luxembourg; De Appel, Amsterdam, MAC

AAA (Mein Herz) - Recorded entirely in 1 take, 4 different compositions (simultaneously yet interchangeably) are performed as one by a young woman. With an intention of keeping the original style, tempo, rhythm of individual compositions intact, the performer takes a vocal walk through them. Oscillating between and clashing silence, music, sounds and words, there is a sense of continuity established on ruptures and breaks. The performer's face and her vocal cords become a site and a battlefield of these meetings, while each cut serves as an escape and an entry. Performance: Barbara Kinga Majewska Image: Mikolaj Syguda, Laurent Fluttert, Katarina Zdjelar Sound: Robert Migas, Ting Fung Cheung, Katarina Zdjelar Directed by Katarina Zdjelar