Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 22 October 1879

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

In the gallery there was a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extended across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor. Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery. The performance lasted until 29 January.
(15 January 1972)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Wednesday 22nd of October 1879 147 years, 6 months and 6 days ago
32-year-old inventor Thomas Edison aka The Wizard of Menlo Park tests the first incandescent light bulb in Menlo Park, Raritan Township, New Jersey, United States. Edison's lamp burned for 13 1/2 hours.