Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Menten, Pieter

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The audience entered the space through a glass door. Then I tied a thin rope to the outside of the door lay down on the ground and tied my feet to two posts on the street. The other end of the rope I swallowed. The performance stopped when someone opened the door from the inside.
(27 August 1995)

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		War criminal and art collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten 26 May 1899 (+) is born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. 17 July 1977 (x) The villa of Menten is burned to the ground by persons unknown in Blaricum, Netherlands. 14 November 1987 (-) dies of natural causes in Loosdrecht, Netherlands.
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