"Do one thing I am one who cares" was the motto of this year's  World Refugee Day and the sentence was said by a non Slovene-speaking  participant of the event.

Katarina Zdjelar’s artistic practice encompasses video, sound, textual and performative works,  books, and on another level, building platforms based on exchanging  experiences, shaping knowledge, and experimenting. Her works probe such concepts as identity, authority, and community, using language as a tool  for observing and analysing social phenomena.

Katarina Zdjelar explores processes of self-realisation with all their paradoxes, promises and failures. She works with non-authoritarian and marginal voices (children, amateurs, immigrants) who are in the process of training or acquiring a new language or skill.

Language learning is  of particular significance for Zdjelar as this is a codified method of cultural integration not only involving a symbolic »rite of passage« of the uprooted individual, but also the very material and corporeal affects shaping this »speaking body«.

Looking at these procedures of  moulding an individual or a group of people, her interest lies in one’s participation in the production of neutrality. It is when this participation is joined with a resistance to adapt, that a third  possibility is born. What concerns Zdjelar is the new subject that is  born out of such often physically and psychologically challenging and  painful processes of transformation, such as in the video piece Today's  motto is »Do one thing passengers that one helps« made in Ljubljana  during her residency at CC Tobačna 001.