Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Langenhagen, Niedersachsen, Germany || Walsroder Straße 11

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 1985

There are 3364 births, 3919 deaths, 1121 murders, 495 disasters and 2076 other events about 5719 people in 6424 places until today.

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

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Walsroder Straße 11, Langenhagen, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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