Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 19 December 1910

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)

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BirthFactDeath (+) Monday 19th of December 1910 114 years ago
Writer, thief and political activist Jean Genet is born in Maternité de la Rue d’Assas, Rue d’Assas 22, VIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Genet's mother Camille Gabrielle Genet was a young prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before putting him up for adoption.