Start with inspiration: early 1980’s – 1990’s pre-CGI horror
films
A short history of the world by H.G.Wells
Focus on over looked or forgotten stories
Likes showing the process in her work – won’t just exhibit
final pieces but will show the how the work has developed.
Believes that objects have a secret life and aims to show it
– puppets, the relationship between people and objects
Korda did a one week residency at Camden Arts Centre in
which she decided to let the public takeover the work she produced – had many
polystyrene bricks which looked like wood and lets people create their own
structures like a game of giant Jenga. This exposes the process – it become the
art along with the finished result. She
then created a performance around the ‘wooden’ blocks – it was magical and
fairy-tale.
Dirt:
1836, the dust heap – brick makers brought the dust to make
bricks with for cheaper buildings. The towns where growing out of their own
dust. She collected dust from places and family and friends to make bricks then
buried them in a public park – wanted to take the work outside of a gallery –
so everyone could see it. Also did a
performance – the brick makers dance – using the movements that she made when
making the bricks. It’s very physical hard work – and the dance was very
flowing and warm.
WAMA – dance phrase:
Sheep – cotton
May pole dancing
First art council grant – make own film
Madness - not being able to express themselves
Beatle mania – women just seem to scream, relationship
between fans and musicians stopped being about the music
Animal symbolism: spider – women
Our fears come out in our music/films
It asks the audience to work harder
15ft monster – took 5 people to puppeteer it. Made of
chicken wire, bamboo, clay etc…
Too big for the studio – challenge
Blackpool tower – circus - animals - who’s looking at who
Have life breathe into it by people
Boggets – folklore: the awaking by school kids
Film of black cat – 13th – familiar, house,
domestic
Black cat auditions – went round to people houses and got a
still image of the cat.
Sculptural – eye level, like a Dalek, eyes of the cat in the
screen
The places are to do with the art – thought through
1940’s sink a ship performance
Directed – storyboard, crew, low budget, 1 day shoot, short
film
Performance – momentarily, documentation of an event, not
too worried about the quality – it just proves that it happen, it exists.
