Som Chai meets my family & friends
I am so excited that Som Chai is now in Oz and has been granted a partner visa.
He's met my family and friends, and even come along to Uni with me.
It is wonderful having him here with me - no more lonely nights or awkward outings on my own!
I can throw my wish list in the fire now because he fulfils all my dreams. I am so proud of him - he is charismatic, generous and kind, and he is also Budhist and a meditator!
I wondered whether there was a difference between art made by a human and art made by a machine? So I made a fan that painted, and I became a painting human fan.
Conclusion: there was no difference.
Just an Ordinary Peasant is based on my uncle’s experience as an inmate at Treblinka extermination camp in 1944. His memoir recounts that while being forced to carry corpses from the gas chambers to an open-air pyre, he was handed a sack which held little children who were still alive. The guard commanded the sack be thrown into the fire. The woman I play in Just an Ordinary Peasant is a hybrid character created from the memoirs of my uncle, my parents and my own research. She sings and dances and also throws a sack of babies into the fire. This piece explores my own biases as well as questions the culpability of ‘ordinary people’ who were accomplices to the atrocities carried out during the Third Reich.
The Package Deal
Little Boxes of ME
I dressed up and played the characters of 15 different stereotypes,
each being a parody of the culture this stereotype addresses.
The Package Deal
Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes Little boxes Little boxes all the same | White Trash |
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Tree Hugger | Toorak Housewife (man overseas) |
Success Woman (No man here) | Power Couple |
Mature Age Art student | Trailer Trash |
Trailer trash chic (man boozed inside) | Grey Nomads |
Gold digger | Funky Japanese chic |
Funky Japanese chic | F.O.B (Fresh off the Boat) |
Corporate Woman (no man) | Bimbo |
70's Retro | Gallery owner |
Bikey chic | Bride |
Now I'm married to ART! (much better) | Family group shot |
Two grooms & family | Now I'm married to ME (better still) |
Radiant. (My original wedding dress) |
The Package Deal
Credits for ‘The Package Deal’
This project would not have been possible if it wasn’t for my daughter, Yasmin Korman. The many roles she undertook include:
Stylist and Make-up Artist
Photographer
Director
Scriptwriter
Film Production Manager and Costume Designer.
Thanks also go to the men who provided their cars and acted out the roles of my specific partners in the following ‘Package Deal’ stereotypes:
Deal # 1: Funky Japanese: Ko Chi Wong
Deal # 2: Bikie chic: Graham Wines
Deal # 3: Tree Huggers: Henry Greener
Deal # 4: White trash: Rob (Warburton)
Deal # 6: 70’s Retro: Graham Wines
Deal # 7: Bride: Chehan Senasekera
Deal # 8: Gold Digger: Harry Choyna
Deal # 9: Grey Nomads: John (Julie’s neighbour)
Deal # 10: Fresh off the Boat
(FOBs): Ishanda Mihundi
Deal# 12: Bimbo: Mark Harosh
Deal # 13: Power couple: Graham Wines
Thanks to my mum and dad for being my main supporters of all my art projects, providing me with everything I need – from wedding gloves to cheese platters and documenting and editing it all on video.
Thanks to my sister, Celina, for the loan of her clothes and jewelery, and for her creative touch.
Thanks to Graham Wines for his constant source of inspiration, support and perfect acting of 3 of the 15 characters.
Thanks to Wendy Stewart for the use of her dogs, car, house and Louis Vuitton bag,
Thanks to my neighbour Godfrey for kindly lending me his Rolls Royce for my 'wedding ceremony’.
Thanks to my long-time friend Chehan for lending me his car and his camera for this entire project, and for being the perfect, immaculate groom.
Thanks to Magda Kron for the use of her car for the ‘corporate look.’
Little Boxes
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Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes
Little boxes
Little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same
And the people in the houses all go to the university
And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same
And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
And they all get put in boxes, and they all come out the same
And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same
There's a green one, and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same