Katarina Zdjelar

Katarina Zdjelar graduated from the University of Arts in Belgrade and received an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she lives and works. Her audiovisual works focus on the performative powers of speech. Her 2007 piece A Girl, the Sun, and an Airplane Airplane focused on the loss of language; she invited people from post-Communist Albania to pronounce words in Russian that are being replaced by other international languages. Her sound piece Say gh Say ch (2007) records the attempts of a couple from different backgrounds to pronounce typical sounds of the other’s language.