Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States

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

For an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts I painted a line of lime through the city with Lud Vandevelde as a connection between the studios and the exhibition space. Halfway we were arrested by the police.
(19 November 1979)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3362 births, 3913 deaths, 1121 murders, 494 disasters and 2074 other events about 5715 people in 6417 places until today.

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

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La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States.

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Wednesday 8th of August 1906 (+) — Murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein is born
Monday 27th of August 1906 (x) — Murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein is baptised
Thursday 14th of January 1909 (+) — Film director Joseph Losey is born
Saturday 29th of December 1945 (x) — Augusta Gein dies at the age of 67 of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her son Murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein all alone on the farm and his fantasies on the loose