Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia || Jubilee Palace

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

The space was divided in two parts by a cutout décor. On one side I was laying naked on a rotating metal table lighted by a stroboscope. From the other side the public could see the performance only through a few small holes in the décor. The stroboscope made it look like sometimes I was on the table and sometimes I wasn’t.
(26 January 1991)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3376 births, 3943 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5732 people in 6441 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Jubilee Palace

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Wednesday 27th of August 1975 (-) — Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie is strangled in his bed by military officers.
The state media reported that Selassie had died of 'respiratory failure' following complications from a prostate examination followed up by a prostate operation.