Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands || De Elshof

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

On the Campo Santo graveyard I dug a grave. After I lay down in it Ross Cannon closed it with earth. While the audience was transported with buses to the next location of the exhibition we moved the grave to the Gele Zaal in Gent.
(17 September 1983)

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

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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

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Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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Wednesday 9th of September 1987 (-) — Businessman Gerrit Jan Heijn is kidnapped and shot dead by Ferdi Elsas aka
Elsas kept a part of Heijn's finger and his glasses and demanded 7,7 million Gulden ransom. The money was delivered on 27 November. Elsas was arrested on 6 april 1988 because he kept spending marked banknotes in the same shops.