Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Higham, Kent, United Kingdom || Gads Hill Place

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

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)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

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

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Gads Hill Place

Higham, Kent, United Kingdom.

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