Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Vollmer, Joan

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I made a metal mask which was fixed to my head. While Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven read a text about willpower, I pulled myself forward with the mask by a rope. The sound of my breathing was electronically amplified through a throat-microphone.
(16 March 1987)

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		Beat Generation prominent Joan Vollmer 4 February 1923 (+) is born in Loudonville, United States. 6 September 1951 (-) shot in the head in a William Tell shooting-game by William Burroughs aka in Mexico City, Mexico.
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