Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
During a series of lectures protesting the closing of the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art by the Flemish Minister of Culture, I lay outside in front of the door with a note that read 'Ignore the Artist'. Artists have not been consulted for decades in decisions regarding museums of contemporary art. In an ideal world fellow artists and art lovers would have dragged me inside to emphasise that artists do indeed belong in a Museum for Contemporary Art and not outside it, but nobody did so.
(23 November 2025)
There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.
Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Sunday 8th of October 1871 155 years, 3 months and 21 days ago |
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 Over 300 Die in the Great Chicago fire in 137 DeKoven Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States. The conflagration burned until Tuesday 10 October and left more than 100.000 residents homeless. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire |
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