Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Venice, California, United States || 2109 Ocean Front Walk

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 1987

There are 3364 births, 3920 deaths, 1121 murders, 495 disasters and 2076 other events about 5719 people in 6424 places until today.

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

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2109 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, California, United States.

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Thursday 5th of February 1959 (-) — Model and actress Gwili Andre commits suicide by self-immolation
Andre surrounded herself in her flat with numerous articles and photographs about the career she expected and set it all alight. Another resident of the building, 83-year-old George Katzenberger, was pulled to safety by two neighbors after he broke a bathroom window.