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Item: The Killing of J.F.K.

Jan Fabre

1980

Performance, 00:10:00.
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27.10.1980 

New York, The Village

In the New York neighbourhood The Village Jan Fabre asks for a gun in one of the local bars. With this gun the artist shoots at a dollar coin with the portrait of JFK. Upon his return to Belgium this coin is hung up in an art gallery.

 

'During the day, my first action in NYC.

I shoot John Fitzgerald Kennedy through

the head (a $1 coin).

During the night the first series of drawings

I have created on American soil.

They are blood drawings

(a tribute to the American Indians).'

(Jan Fabre, New York, 27 October 1980)

 

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