Neimenovani fragmenti #1 [Fragments Untitled #1]

The famous speech of Slobodan Milošević, which took place in Kosovo on June 28th 1989, was performed in front of thousands of people. National television streamed it. This event, known as the “happening of the people,” is embodied in the image and the speech of Milošević. History regards it as a presaging of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the bloodshed of the Yugoslav Wars. Fragments Untitled #1 vivisects media footage of the 1989 event in order to denote the invisible and deconstruct memory.

Fragments Untitled is a ongoing series of works through which doplgenger researches the politics of media images that participated in creating the historical narratives of Yugoslavia in the period of 1980–2000, especially media images that performed the pretext to the Yugoslav Wars and the breakup of Yugoslavia. Fragments Untitled are media traces of certain important events in collective memory and are based on private archives of citizens who recorded television shows in the 1990s on VHS recorders.

The program General Relativity, Take Two is curated by Greg de Cuir Jr.

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