Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
The space was divided in two parts by a cutout décor. On one side I was laying naked on a rotating metal table lighted by a stroboscope. From the other side the public could see the performance only through a few small holes in the décor. The stroboscope made it look like sometimes I was on the table and sometimes I wasn’t.
(26 January 1991)
There are 3347 births, 3884 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.
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Stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist Lenny Bruce born as Leonard Alfred Schneider 13 October 1925 (+) is born in Mineola, United States. 29 September 1961 (x) is arrested for possession of narcotics in Philadelphia, United States. 4 October 1961 (x) is arrested for obscenity in San Francisco, United States. 6 October 1962 (x) is arrested for possession of narcotics in Los Angeles, United States. 24 October 1962 (x) is arrested for obscenity in Hollywood, United States. 3 August 1966 (-) dies of acute morphine poisoning caused by an accidental overdose in Hollywood Hills, United States. |
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