Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Yuba City, California, United States

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

I took a suitcase with some 20kgs of earth on the plane to Genève and the train to Lausanne. In the gallery I made an installation which related to the work of minimal artist Donald Judd. Instead of perspex and aluminium shapes I used 3 old drawers that I found at a garbage dump. I filled 2 buckets with water of Lac Leman. I stepped into the bottom drawer of my Donald Judd piece and proceeded to open the suitcase. I grabbed some of the earth inside and put it in the drawer above my head. Then I took some water from a bucket and poured it in the top drawer.
(22 June 2007)

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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Yuba City, California, United States.

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Wednesday 26th of May 1971 (x) — Serial killer Juan Corona is arrested and charged with the murders of 25 migrant farm workers.
Friday 18th of June 1971 (x) — Serial killer Juan Corona suffers a mild heart attack in his prison cell.
Wednesday 19th of May 1971 (x) — The fresh corpse of 40-year-old Kenneth Whitacre is found on the ranch of Serial killer Juan Corona .
In the next days a total of 24 bodies was excavated from Corona's ranch.
Monday 12th of July 1971 (x) — Serial killer Juan Corona is indicted with a 25 murder count.