Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States

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

I took a wooden crate with 15kgs of dirt from my hole on the airplane and buried it close to the culture center. The performance started with digging up the crate to everybody’s amazement. I carried the crate inside and hacked it to pieces with a spade. I took a toy hare and removed the filling with my mouth. Then I filled the empty hare with dirt, also using my mouth to do that. Then I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art where I spread the dirt in several spaces. The empty hare was left behind at night in a children’s playground.
(19 May 2007)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1989

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

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Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States.

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