Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France || Baumettes Prison

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

A handful spectators was led along a muddy path in the dark towards a pig stye where they can enter one by one. The pig stye is divided in partitions that hold seven pigs each, totalling about 100 pigs. At the end of the small corridor that leads through the middle of the stye a film is projected onto my naked body. From several incisions in my body blood is seeping. I hung there for about half an hour. The pigs got excited by the smell of people and blood.
(28 December 2002)

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

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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Baumettes Prison

239 Chemin de Morgiou, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Related events:

Thursday 14th of July 1960 (x) — Presumed murderer Gaston Dominici is released from prison
Saturday 12th of May 1973 (-) — Child killer Ali Ben Yanes is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht
Wednesday 28th of July 1976 (-) — Child killer Christian Ranucci is executed by the Guillotine by André Olbrecht
Saturday 10th of September 1977 (-) — Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is executed by the Guillotine by Marcel Chevalier
Djandoubi was the last person to be executed in Western Europe and the last person executed by beheading in the Western world.