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VIVID is delighted to present new work by Serbian artist Katarina Zdjelar, who has been in residence with VIVID since October 2008 as part of the European Media Artists in Residency Exchange programme.
A solo exhibition of Zdjelar’s newly commissioned work will open on 3 December, 6-8pm (continuing to 20 December, Wed-Sat, 12-5.30pm, admission FREE).
The Birmingham accent has been the subject for derision and criticism for years. It’s distinctive rhythm and lyricism sets it aside from the ‘Queen’s English’. Now Birmingham is a thriving multi-cultural city with hundreds of nationalities living together, and subsequently the spoken word differs from one person to the next, the result of which is a fusion of languages and oral histories.
During the residency at VIVID Katarina Zdjelar produced a single channel video work which explores and investigates notions of producing the ‘perfect sound’ within the English spoken language. The fact that we each have a unique sound and voice whilst sharing the same vocal apparatus intrigues the artist who worked with the relatively recent phenomenon of ‘accent removal’ to extract the ‘foreignness’ within a subject’s accent.
The work has been researched and developed during a residency at VIVID running 6 October to 5 December 2008. A solo exhibition of Zdjelar’s newly commissioned work will open on 3 December, 6-8pm (continuing to 20 December, Wed-Sat, 12-5.30pm).
