Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 23 July 1958

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

In the gallery there was a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extended across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor. Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery. The performance lasted until 29 January.
(15 January 1972)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Wednesday 23rd of July 1958 66 years ago
Mass murderer Abraham Thomas is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. On 23 February 1954 Thomas shot and killed 28-year-old sergeant Lafayette Bennett, 32-year-old corporal Edward Peters and their German girlfriends Walburga Wenderoth and Anna Weigel in Gersthofen, Germany. Then Thomas used an axe to bludgeon, hack and mutilate the bodies.