For More Than One Voice

The linkage between vocal pitch and social recognition, the effects of sonic modulation of voices, and the reflection of the resonant relationships between bodies transfused by socio-cultural hierarchies, are key aspects of Katarina Zdjelar's artistic practice. Her works are driven by an interest in the material nuances that shape sound, voice, and tone, and the transformation of their markings.

Program

Katarina Zdjelar,
Reading “Europe Where Have You Displaced Love?”, 2019, 30 min
AAA Mein Herz, 2016, 5 min
Rise Again, 2011, 11 min
The Perfect Sound, 2009, 15 min
Not A Pillar Not A Pile (Dance for Dore Hoyer), 2018, 9 min, single channel version with live spoken text

Introduction by Rike Frank, after the screening: conversation with Sabeth Buchmann and Katarina Zdjelar, moderated by Rike Frank and Vanessa Joan Müller (European Kunsthalle)

Art historian and critic Sabeth Buchmann lives and works in Berlin and Vienna. She is professor of the History of Modern and Postmodern Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, co-editor of PolYPen, a series on art criticism and political theory (b_books, Berlin) and board member of Texte zur Kunst and European Kunsthalle. In addition to books on modern and contemporary art, she regularly contributes to anthologies, catalogues, and magazines including Afterall, Artforum, Camera Austria, Springern, Texte zur Kunst and others.

Working mainly in the medium of video, Katarina Zdjelar 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 work. Her most recent works look at potentials and legacies of pacifist (proto) feminist practices. Zdjelar represented Serbia at the 53rd Venice Biennale and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally.

The European Kunsthalle is an institution without its own space, currently lead by Rike Frank and Vanessa Joan Müller. It always connects to other places and defines itself as a Kunsthalle, based on the interest in the history of this form of institution and its idea of public.

Program note: On Thursday, November 10, 2022, the European Kunsthalle will host a workshop with all participants. Registration and further information at: kunsthalle.eu