Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium || Gele Zaal

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

The fire started when a fireworks display created a chain reaction, setting off the fireworks of other nearby vendors. The aftermath created a "wall of fire" that spread for four blocks and raged for several hours.
(29 December 2001)

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

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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

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Gele Zaal

Nonnemeersstraat 26, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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Saturday 17th of September 1983 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Now I am Death the Destroyer of Worlds - 2'.
This time I lay upside down in the grave with a chain attached to my feet. I was pulled out of the grave while films and slides about Robert Oppenheimer and death were projected onto me. In a microphone I repeated: “Now I am death the destroyer of worlds”. The sound of my voice was electronically distorted into an unearthly grinding and thundering by Paul Hurst.