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

I was laying with my back naked in the middle of the room. Ria Pacquée spray-painted a diagonal through the space and over my back. Then she removed the paint from my back with sandpaper. On the floor I wrote: “I don’t belong here”.
(25 June 1980)

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

There are 3393 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6461 places until today.

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

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El Deluvio

Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

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Five passengers, Gonzalo Dussan Monroy, Michelle Dussan, Mercedes Ramirez, Mauricio Reyes and Gonzalo 'Gonzalito' Dussan, Jr survived although Gonzalito died in surgery. Crews found a small brown dog alive inside a carrier in the cargo hold. They renamed him Milagro, which is Spanish for 'miracle.