Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Miyamoto, Kiyoharo

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

I took a wooden crate with 15kgs of dirt from my hole on the airplane and buried it close to the culture center. The performance started with digging up the crate to everybody’s amazement. I carried the crate inside and hacked it to pieces with a spade. I took a toy hare and removed the filling with my mouth. Then I filled the empty hare with dirt, also using my mouth to do that. Then I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art where I spread the dirt in several spaces. The empty hare was left behind at night in a children’s playground.
(19 May 2007)

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

There are 3390 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5743 people in 6458 places until today.

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no photo available		Cult leader of the Church of the Friends Kiyoharo Miyamoto 1 November 1986 (x) When their Miyamoto dies of a liver-disease his seven ‘Brides of God’ commit suicide by self-immolation on the beach in Wakayama, Japan.