Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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

In a darkened room a slide was projected onto a sheet of transparent plastic. From behind I sprayed white paint on it so the projection became visible: a view of the backroom in which I hung upside down. Unseen by the audience I hung myself in the same way. While violently swinging my body back and forth I could reach the plastic and pull it away while all the lights were switched on.
(8 June 1979)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1987

There are 3393 births, 3958 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5747 people in 6459 places until today.

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

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Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

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Monday 16th of June 1997 (-) — Doctor and serial killer Gerd Wenzinger commits suicide hanging in his cell.
Wenzinger was facing charges for killing 13 prostitutes in Berlin and Stuttgart, and sexually torturing many more in Germany and Brazil.