The Australian art world is in mourning. This week Queensland police confirmed that the backpack and some human remains found near a rudimentary campsite on the banks of the Gilbert River in far north Queensland belonged to the performance artist known as Autonomy. All signs indicate that the forty-one-year-old woman was killed by a crocodile. Police have established that she had been living for several weeks at the water’s edge of an estuary known to be the habitat of large saltwater crocodiles. A significant quantity of crystal methamphetamine was found among her belongings. A police spokesman said the artist’s decision…
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