Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 20 September 1977

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

In an AMVK-installation I was laying naked on a rotating platform, naked with my legs spread, my feet tied to a branch. By shuffling over the platform it looked as if I was moving forward, but yet remaining on the same spot. On the background a film of the same performance in a wood was projected.
(1 November 1986)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3386 births, 3952 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5739 people in 6452 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 20th of September 1977 49 years, 6 months and 25 days ago
Postman to David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam Andrew Dupay commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 24 in Lincoln Terrace, Yonkers, New York, United States. Dupay told a friend “Sometimes a mailman learns things about the people on his route he’d be better off not knowing, and he sees things he’d be better off not seeing”.