Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Ostia, Lazio, Italy || Lido di Ostia

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

I filled golden paper bags alternately with earth from my hole and ‘Yves Klein’ blue paint, and tied them to a piece of canvas. Then I hoisted the canvas up so the bags formed a figure. I hoisted myself up upside down and pulled at a rope until I was hanging at a distance away from the canvas, let go and swirled like a projectile against the canvas which made the bags tear and the earth and the paint were mixed and spattered around.
(6 June 2009)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3392 births, 3956 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5745 people in 6459 places until today.

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

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Lido di Ostia

Via dell’Idroscalo, Ostia, Lazio, Italy.

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Sunday 2nd of November 1975 (-) — Writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered by being run over several times with his own car.
17-year-old male prostitute Giuseppe Pelosi was arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini. On 7 May 2005 he retracted his confession which he said was made under the threat of violence to his family. He claimed that three people "with a southern accent" had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist".