“I like collecting things; a conversation with a stranger, an old man’s tattoo or a secret written on a scrap of paper. This exchange and involvement with an audience is often central to the production of my work.”
Serena Korda’s work is impelled by a detective-like inquiry of forgotten histories. Since 2004, she has been making public works that engage with communities. Audiences participate in an event or performance that intervenes in the conventions of more accepted institutions such as a library, a lecture theatre, a puppet theatre, pub, social-club or tattoo parlour. She is drawn to restructuring the order and importance of social histories, highlighting the left-out or abandoned bits. Through performance, print and film, she works these stories back into the fabric of the everyday, telling them through the magic of the makeshift and handmade.
Serena Korda’s The Library of Secrets was made for the Whitstable Biennale 2008 and subsequently shown at the New Art Gallery Walsall and Camden Arts Centre. Korda was awarded the 2009 Deutsche Bank Award for her Royal College of Art MA show. In March 2010, she performed in GO PUBLIC, an initiative at Tate Britain. Her contribution was based around a series of talks and discussions inspired by Luke Howard, the Namer of Clouds. Also in 2010, she undertakes a residency at Villa Paula, Klenova in the Czech Republic, as a recipient of the Start Point Prize. This was awarded by Galerie Klatovy for her multimedia installation Building the Matterhorn.
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