Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium || Ernest van Dijckkaai 8

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

On the morning of her execution Lee became hysterical and had to be sedated. She fainted when the executioner came to her cell and she was strapped semi-conscious to a chair. Lee was the last woman to be executed in Australia.
(19 February 1951)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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Ernest van Dijckkaai 8, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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Friday 13th of April 2007 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'The Red Dragon'.
Between 17.00 and 18.00hrs on I stood on the edge of the top balcony ramp of the house on Ernest Van Dijckkaai N°8 in Antwerp dressed in a shiny red cape rubber boots blindfolded and with my ‘Diggin’ for Gordon’ shovel like a rifle in my hands. While I counted from 1 till 1978 Sofie Pepermans read a cutup text about this piece. The performance had - apart from casual passers-by below - one viewer: Mauro Pawlowski.