KATARINA ZDJELAR (EDITION II)
India Song
The point of departure for Katarina Zdjelar’s new performance is India Song by Marguerite Duras – a story that takes place in the India of the 1930s and deals with the impossible love between the wife of the French ambassador and the vice-consul in Lahore. The performers translate the text as a novel text, theater text and as a film script, in this way inviting the viewer to imagine different India Songs.
He or she can be carried away with the intensely passionate story of Anne-Marie Stretter, or be guided by the unexpected and often comic stage directions by Marguerite Duras to again end up with both feet solidly on the ground. Katarina Zdjelar lives and works in Rotterdam.
She studied at the art academy in Belgrade (1999-2004), the Center for Theater, Performance Art and Art Theory in Belgrade (2001-2002) and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2004-2006). She has recently had exhibitions at TENT., Rotterdam, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, and Casco, Utrecht.
Concept: Katarina Zdjelar, Performers: Ozlem Altin, Maja Bekan, Lina Issa, Ruthh Legg, Dramaturgy: Igor Dobricic
India Song is a co-produced by Huis en Festival a/d Werf and If I Can't Dance...
The point of departure for Katarina Zdjelar’s new performance is India Song by Marguerite Duras – a story that takes place in the India of the 1930s and deals with the impossible love between the wife of the French ambassador and the vice-consul in Lahore. The performers translate the text as a novel text, theater text and as a film script, in this way inviting the viewer to imagine different India Songs.
He or she can be carried away with the intensely passionate story of Anne-Marie Stretter, or be guided by the unexpected and often comic stage directions by Marguerite Duras to again end up with both feet solidly on the ground. Katarina Zdjelar lives and works in Rotterdam.
She studied at the art academy in Belgrade (1999-2004), the Center for Theater, Performance Art and Art Theory in Belgrade (2001-2002) and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2004-2006). She has recently had exhibitions at TENT., Rotterdam, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, and Casco, Utrecht.
Concept: Katarina Zdjelar, Performers: Ozlem Altin, Maja Bekan, Lina Issa, Ruthh Legg, Dramaturgy: Igor Dobricic
India Song is a co-produced by Huis en Festival a/d Werf and If I Can't Dance...
2 & 3 November, 2008, Festival a/d Werf
Untitled, One Or Two Songs (...)
Katarina Zdjelar studied at the art academy in Belgrade (1999-2004), the Center for Theatre, Performance Art and Art Theory in Belgrade (2001-2002) and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2004-2006). She has recently had exhibitions at Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TENT., Rotterdam and Casco, Utrecht. In her work, Zdjelar focuses on language: on how we speak, how we learn a foreign language, how we try to articulate words and how we struggle to get the right sound.
The works she shows in the exhibition is called 'Untitled, One Or Two Songs On Someone Or Something, In Particular' (2007, video, 4 Min, 46 Sec). Zdjelar: "With this piece I film a person who just moved alone to another country, got an electrical guitar and started getting familiar with it. This piece celebrates the very possibility and desire of getting to know something over mastering any particular skill. This work highlights the way our bodies are involved in and busy with occupying an unfamiliar territory and how ones insecurity but also persistence of doing something (what one doesn’t really know how to do but still does it) proposes and produces alternative modes of being."
Katarina Zdjelar studied at the art academy in Belgrade (1999-2004), the Center for Theatre, Performance Art and Art Theory in Belgrade (2001-2002) and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2004-2006). She has recently had exhibitions at Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TENT., Rotterdam and Casco, Utrecht. In her work, Zdjelar focuses on language: on how we speak, how we learn a foreign language, how we try to articulate words and how we struggle to get the right sound.
The works she shows in the exhibition is called 'Untitled, One Or Two Songs On Someone Or Something, In Particular' (2007, video, 4 Min, 46 Sec). Zdjelar: "With this piece I film a person who just moved alone to another country, got an electrical guitar and started getting familiar with it. This piece celebrates the very possibility and desire of getting to know something over mastering any particular skill. This work highlights the way our bodies are involved in and busy with occupying an unfamiliar territory and how ones insecurity but also persistence of doing something (what one doesn’t really know how to do but still does it) proposes and produces alternative modes of being."
28 October, 2007 - 6 January, 2008, MuHKA
'Untitled, One Or Two Songs (...)', Katarina Zdjelar, 28 Oct, 2007 - 6 Jan, 2008, MuHKA
'India Song', Katarina Zdjelar, 2 & 3 November, 2008, Festival a/d Werf
