Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia || Na Bulovce Hospital

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

In an AMVK-installation I was laying naked on a rotating platform, naked with my legs spread, my feet tied to a branch. By shuffling over the platform it looked as if I was moving forward, but yet remaining on the same spot. On the background a film of the same performance in a wood was projected.
(1 November 1986)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3393 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6461 places until today.

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

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Na Bulovce Hospital

Budínova 67/2, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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Thursday 4th of June 1942 (-) — Nazi leader and SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich dies due to injuries inflicted during an assault by the Czech resistance.
As a represaille for Heydrich's death the Nazis murdered all 173 men over 15 years of age of Lidice and destroyed the whole town.