Death in Dallas

Zoran Naskovski

Born in 1960 in Izbiste, Vojvodina, Yugoslavia. MA in Visual Arts; University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade. Works in various media. He developed the web projects: 'War Frames': www.cyberrex.org/z; 'A Question': www.cyberrex.org/1; video works and video installations: ‘L’origine du Monde’, 1997; * (A Symbol, Red Star is the Title of This Work), 1999; ‘Death in Dallas’, 2001; 'Nothing but Net', 2003… Naskovski participated in Dutch Electronic Art Festival - Rotterdam, 2000; Transmediale.02 - Berlin, 2002; Impakt Festival – Utrecht, 2003; Dallas Video Festival – Dallas, TX, USA and on many exhibitions in Berlin, Stockholm, Vienna, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid… including the recent 'The American Effect' at the Whitney Museum in New York and 'November 22, 1963: Image, Memory, Myth' at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

video installation, RS, 2001

Z. Naskovski: Death in Dallas

'Oh my gusle, my instrument of old,
by modern times you will suffer not,
for gusle gentle tunes
became our national lore.

And now I’ll sing a song,
and picture the assassination
of Kennedy the president
and day when he was killed'.
…

A video installation, which sets newsreel footage of John F. Kennedy's life and assassination with a mournful ballad about the tragedy sung to the accompaniment by the sounds of an ancient one-stringed instrument known a gusle.

* Gusle players served as chroniclers of unwritten history of their nation, while in case of the song "Death in Dallas", the gaze of gusle player is directed towards the global event that took place in USA.

tags: Zoran Naskovski | Serbia | 2001

at videomedeja in: 2005 → special

Our Stuff

User login

Death in Dallas