Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia || Ordzhonikidze Street, Block 22

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

Inside, the space was lit by 100 burning candles. Through the window you could see the tied up bodies of me and Frank De Busscher, a pointed wooden stick placed between their bodies and the door. It took four hours, until all the candles were burned up. Johan Desmet made music with tapes and found footage sounds.
(28 December 1979)

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Block 22

Ordzhonikidze Street, St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

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Friday 14th of February 1997 (x) — Cannibal Ilshat Kuzikov is arrested and confesses to killing his vodka drinking buddies Sasha Pichonkin, 37-year-old Misha Bochkov and 43-year-old Edik Vassilevski and eating their internal organs
"You know, I always wanted to be a surgeon, but it’s better to be a cannibal. If you’re a surgeon you have to put the body back together and you stop having any control over it. But a cannibal kills and then he can do what he wants with the body. After he kills, he owns it forever."