My diggin' shovel on the top balcony of Ernest Van Dijckkaai N°8, the house next to where Gordon Matta-Clark's "Office Baroque" once stood. Between 17.00 and 18.00hrs I performed "The Red Dragon" there today. I stood on the edge of the balcony ramp, dressed in a shiny red cape, rubber boots, blindfolded with my diggin' shovel in my hands. While I counted from 1 till 1978, Sofie read a cutup text about this piece. The performance had, apart from casual passers-by below, one viewer: Mauro Pawlowski.
1743 (+) 3rd president of the USA Thomas Jefferson is born in Shadwell, Virginia, USA.
1860 (+) Artist James Ensor is born in Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium.
1885 (+) Philosopher Gyorgy Von Lukacs is born in Budapest, Hungary.
1900 (+) Artist Pierre Molinier is born in Agen, Bordeaux, France.
1901 (+) Psychoanalist Jacques Lacan is born in Paris, France.
1906 (+) Writer Samuel Beckett is born in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland.
1917 (-) Murderer Chester Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.
1920 (-) Murderer Frederick Holt is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.
1923 (-) Murderer Paul Hadley aka W.M. Estaver, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
1930 (-) Frau Hau is attacked by Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, Hofgarten, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1931 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster, in Düsseldorf, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.
1943 (-) Artist Oskar Schlemmer dies in Baden-Baden, Germany.
1945 (-) Murderer U. Holley is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
He had been drinking, entered a saloon in Globe to purchase more beer, and was told that negroes were not served. Whereupon he went home and embarked on a shooting spree, killing one and injuring two.
1947 (-) Herr Bennen is hacked to death by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 52 in Niedersachsen, Germany.
1956 (-) Artist Emil Nolde dies at the age of 88 in Seebull, Germany.
1961 (-) Wife-murderer John Bennet is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in the USA.
1967 (-) President and dictator Luis Somoza Debayle dies of a heart-attack at the age of 44 in Nicaragua.
1982 (x) ‘Whose Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV’ by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked by an unidentified 29-year-old student in Berlin, NationalGalerie, Germany.
1983 (-) Joe Rapini is shot dead by Mike Debarbeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, at the age of 42 in Rochester, Greece, New York, USA.
1984 (-) Serial Killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, dies due to self-inflicted gun-shots in a fight with state-trooper Chuck Ellison in Colebrook, Vic’s Getty Oil-Station, Connecticut, USA.
1999 (x) Life Terminator Jack Kevorkian aka Doctor Death, is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison today for the videotaped death of a Lou Gehrig's disease patient in Pontiac, Michigan, USA.
1999 (-) Serial Killer Marion Pruett aka The Mad-Dog Killer, is executed by lethal injection in Varner, Arkansas, USA.
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james lee byars wiens graf waarvan ik de buren ben graaft alsmaar dieper bij het licht van dan flavin voor de broer die uit het venster sprong der eenzaamheid in het lege graf waar de tonen van herwerkte muziek bastaard klinken doorheen de gang samen van het licht der tonen van de ladder van vito acconci langswaar dan flavin afdaalt in de hel die gordon voor gordon matta-clark steeds dieper in de aarde het werk herwerkt tot het herwerkte werk opstijgt in de hoek van het hoekstuk waar terry fox wurmt en alles zwart is en on kawara niet dood is maar rood de rust is op het droge goud van james lee byars dat brion gysin verknipt ten telken male op 20 september terwijl minuten gaan vanop het dak met de spade dieper ondergrond zwart hout rondom de kelderband van bob dylan in de diepe put in de tuin van het kwaad waar de vlinder fladdert gaan op en neer de laarzen doorheen de bootleg in de duisternis waar gordon matta-clark de buik betreedt en de versneden lagen naast elkaar de betekenis van dan flavin het zwarte licht in emmers langs touwen hangt hij aan versneden schouders zijn knieën boven de rand van het droogwater
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