Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 12 May 1895

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

I made a metal mask which was fixed to my head. While Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven read a text about willpower, I pulled myself forward with the mask by a rope. The sound of my breathing was electronically amplified through a throat-microphone.
(16 March 1987)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3395 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5749 people in 6462 places until today.

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Sunday 12th of May 1895
131 years, 1 months and 18 days ago

Adèle Augustine Mortureux is strangled and disemboweled by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est at the age of 17 in Étaules, Franche-Comté, France.