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 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) Friday 20th of September 1940 84 years ago |
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.jpg/1024px-Fort_Breendonk_entrance_(DSCF0597).jpg) The one and only concentration camp for Belgium is inaugurated by 38-year-old SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Schmitt in Breendonk KZ, Breendonk, Antwerpen, Belgium. Initially prisoners were petty criminals, people deemed anti-social or trespassers of the new race laws. Later on resistance fighters, political prisoners and innocent hostages were detained as well. Another section was used as a transit camp for Jews being sent to death camps such as Auschwitz. |
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