The British murder mystery genre is a strange convergence of killing and entertainment, providing consumers with safety in the predictable structure of the storyline. In Hot Trail, Miranda Hine plays with patterns and repetition within this TV genre, compiling storytelling devices such as red herrings and recurring plot points repeated across multiple programs. Beyond neat narrative conventions, repetition can also be found in which figures and institutions these seemingly benign stories uphold as the arbiters of authority, morality, power and knowledge.
Miranda Hine is a Meanjin/Brisbane based artist, curator and writer whose research explores systems and histories of collecting, documenting, cataloguing and arranging to construct and disrupt narratives.
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Exhibition Dates: 7 - 18 March 2023
Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm, Tuesday - Saturday
Where: POP Gallery, 381 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, 4006