Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Küssnacht, Schwyz, Switzerland

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

I repeated the text “The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu” with my head immersed in water. The sound was amplified by a hydrophone. AMVK read passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The sound was amplified by a microphone. Behind us a film was projected with images of mouths of humans and beaks of animals.
(11 October 1985)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.

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

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Küssnacht, Schwyz, Switzerland.

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Thursday 24th of October 1918 (-) — Hotelier César Ritz dies of unknown causes.
Thursday 29th of August 1935 (-) — Queen consort of the Belgians Astrid of Sweden dies from her injuries sustained in a car crash.
King Leopold was driving their Packard One-Twenty convertible and Queen Astrid looking at a map. As the Queen pointed out something to her husband the car went off the road down a steep slope and slammed into a pear tree. Queen Astrid had opened her door to try to get out but she was thrown out upon impact. Her body collided with the trunk of the tree while the car slammed into a second tree. King Leopold was thrown out of the car as well but he was only lightly injured.