Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

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

I made a metal mask which was fixed to my head. While Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven read a text about willpower, I pulled myself forward with the mask by a rope. The sound of my breathing was electronically amplified through a throat-microphone.
(16 March 1987)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3385 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.

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Saturday 7th of April 1973 (x) — Serial killer Gerard Schaefer is arrested.
In Schaefer's bedroom police found lurid stories he had written that were full of descriptions of the torture, rape and murder of women.
Saturday 21st of July 1973 (-) — Murderer Albert Brust commits suicide by cyanide poisoning.
In Brust's house the police found a wide variety of pornography and torture-devices as well as the walled-in body of 16-year-old Mark Matson.