Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| New York, Soho, New York, United States || Sonnabend Gallery

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

That same day Jones coaxed 910 inhabitants of Jonestown including 303 children into a mass suicide by drinking cyanide-laced grape-flavored Flavor Aid. At the end of a 45-minute recording made during the mass suicide, Jones concluded: "We didn't commit suicide; we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."
(18 November 1978)

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

There are 3366 births, 3930 deaths, 1121 murders, 498 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6431 places until today.

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

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Sonnabend Gallery

420 W. Broadway, Soho, New York, New York, United States.

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Saturday 15th of January 1972 (x) — Performance artist Vito Acconci starts his performance series 'Seedbed'
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.