Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 11 July 1991

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)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3361 births, 3912 deaths, 1121 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5714 people in 6416 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 11th of July 1991 33 Years Ago The Cabin Floor Was Consumed
261 Nigerian pilgrims Die in Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 Douglas DC-8-61 crash in King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Hejaz, Saudi Arabia. A flat tire during take-off resulted in over-heating and structural weakening of the No. 1 tyre. The inflight fire consumed the cabin floor and bodies fell from the melting aircraft that finally became uncontrollable and crashed.