The Albury Wodonga Superfiction 1993
Collaboration Peter Hill and J.J. Voss (Photographer)
The Albury Wodonga Superfiction 1993
Collaboration Peter Hill and J.J. Voss (Photographer)
Art Fair Murders Catalogue - 1997
Sample of Art Transporter's Rhyming Slang
Prologue - The Aberdeen Writers' Club
The Making of The Art Fair Murders
Twelve bizarre murders in twelve cities around the world, each in a
different month of the same year - 1989. What could possibly link them?
If postcards of artworks from museums around the world had not been left
beside the mutilated bodies these twelve crimes would have forever seemed
unconnected and almost certainly gone undetected, slipping under the weight
of other more urgent felonies in Frankfurt, Melbourne, Paris, Miami, Hong
Kong, London...
On each postcard a murder or intimation of death is depicted by artists
from the distant past to the present day -
Goya, Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Brett Whitely, Rainer Fetting,
Robert Yarber, Joel Peter Witkins, Peter Howson, Julie Gough, Christine
Borland, Aloha...
The manner of death reproduced in the postcards is mirrored by the deaths
in the twelve cities - death by poisoning, shooting, drowning, electrocution,
burning... death by falling. As the months of murder progress it becomes
apparent that each murder has been committed during the run of a commercial
art fair in each of the twelve cities. Is the murderer an artist, gallery
dealer, art critic, collector, or art transporter? Serial killing reaches
new heights of artistry and humour in this chilling crime fantasy. A sample
chapter of this outrageous novel can be found on Mosaic by going to the
home page of:
The Museum of Contemporary Ideas
International book and film rights will be auctioned in Los Angeles and
London .
Expressions of interest can be E-mailed to:
info (at) superfictions.com
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