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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 1987

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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

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Calle de Balbina Valverde, Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

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Thursday 6th of February 1986 (-) — 17th Duke of Veragua Cristóbal Colón de Carvajal y Maroto is shot dead by the ETA.
de Carvajal's 55-year-old driver Manuel Trillo was also killed in the attack.