Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Mariánské Lázně, Karlovarský Kraj, Czechoslovakia

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

On the location where the so-called ‘Strangler of the Left Bank’ committed a murder, I was hanging upside down between four trees. To my arms and legs I tied small hatchets and I pulled a plastic bag over my head. I hung there as long as I could. The performance was inspired by an ever recurring nightmare by the ‘Strangler’, with whom I kept an intense correspondence for several years.
(29 March 1994)

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

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Mariánské Lázně, Karlovarský Kraj, Czechoslovakia.

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