[spectre] The news so far on the Body Missing Altaussee website

[Vera Frenkel]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

September 8th will mark a year since Body Missing, my video-photo-web
project on art theft in the Third Reich, was installed inside the salt mine
at Altaussee where the Nazis stored looted art intended for the proposed
Fuehrermuseum in Linz. The plan was to launch the Body Missing Altaussee
website on the first anniversary of the installation.

That was before a fierce storm caused a flood in my studio, with serious
damage that I’m still digging out of.  Timely advice from Queen's
University archivist Heather Home resulted in some of the wet drawings,
collages, photographs and documents being carted off to a massive freezer
in the suburbs, outcome still unknown.

Unsurprisingly, all the turmoil has caused a production delay, leaving me
with the dilemma of either postponing the launch and disappointing
expectations, or sharing a work still taking shape.

With its structure in place, there is still much work to do to complete the
site's content and design, including adapting it for viewing on different
formats.  Nevertheless, to honour all those who helped to realize the
installation deep inside the mine, and those who wanted to be there and are
waiting for the promised on-line visit, I’m hoping we can post a
preliminary version to mark the 700 meter underground opening a year ago,
in the Springwerk section of the mine.

We will send you the URL by email as soon as we know the early version has
been posted.

And looking beyond this first glance, a more formal presentation of the
completed project is being discussed for later this Fall - weather
permitting!

With warm regards,
Vera
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