Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Chicago, Illinois, United States || Starr Hotel

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

In the gallery there was a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extended across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor. Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery. The performance lasted until 29 January.
(15 January 1972)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3384 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

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Starr Hotel

617 W. Madison, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Saturday 16th of July 1966 (x) — Mass murderer Richard Speck tries to commit suicide by slashing his wrists.
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