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

Between 17.00 and 18.00hrs on I stood on the edge of the top balcony ramp of the house on Ernest Van Dijckkaai N°8 in Antwerp dressed in a shiny red cape rubber boots blindfolded and with my ‘Diggin’ for Gordon’ shovel like a rifle in my hands. While I counted from 1 till 1978 Sofie Pepermans read a cutup text about this piece. The performance had - apart from casual passers-by below - one viewer: Mauro Pawlowski.
(13 April 2007)

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

There are 3366 births, 3927 deaths, 1121 murders, 497 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6428 places until today.

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

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'Asir, Saudi Arabia.

Related events:

Tuesday 13th of December 1977 (+) — 9/11 terrorist Ahmed al-Nami is born
Monday 7th of May 1979 (+) — 9/11 terrorist Mohand al-Shehri is born
On 11 September 2001 Shehri boarded Flight 175 with four other hijackers. About a half an hour into the flight the plane was hijacked and was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.