Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Tokyo, Setagaya, Kantō, Japan

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

For an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts I painted a line of lime through the city with Lud Vandevelde as a connection between the studios and the exhibition space. Halfway we were arrested by the police.
(19 November 1979)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

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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Setagaya, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

Related events:

Tuesday 15th of April 1947 (+) — Cop killer Misao Katagiri is born.
Tuesday 23rd of March 1976 (-) — Pornographic actor and suicide pilot Mitsuyasu Maeno crashes a rented Piper Cherokee JA3551 airplane kamikaze-style into the mansion of multi-millionaire right-wing leader and leading figure in the Lockheed bribery scandals Yoshio Kodama.
Maeno's last words on the radio were “Long live the emperor! Banzai!” Kodama was in another part of the building convalescing from a stroke and escaped harm.
Sunday 6th of September 1998 (-) — Film director Akira Kurosawa dies of a stroke.
Kurosawa's longtime wish to die on the set while shooting a movie was never to be fulfilled.