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    Jan Fabre

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    (c)Angelos bvba, photo: Attilio Maranzano
    The Killing of J.F.K., 1980
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 00:10:00

    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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