Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Caruso, Enrico

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 1989

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		Tenor Enrico Caruso 25 February 1873 (+) is born in Napoli, Italy. 16 November 1906 (x) is arrested and charged with indecent behaviour for pinching Hannah Graham's bottom in the monkey house in New York, United States. 11 December 1920 (x) During a performance of 'L'elisir d'amore' by Donizetti, Caruso suffers a throat haemorrhage and starts bleeding heavily from the mouth in New York, United States. 2 August 1921 (-) dies of peritonitis arising from a burst subrenal abscess in Napoli, Italy.
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