Yahoo! News - Suicide Mistaken for Art Performance

BERLIN (Reuters) - Visitors to a off-beat Berlin arts center thought a dead woman on the ground was a performance art act rather than a suicide, police said on Thursday.

Authorities said the 24-year-old woman, who apparently leapt from a window, discussed suicide in a videotaped interview with a group of artists the day before.

"A group of visitors to the center at first thought the body lying on the ground at the art center was part of an art performance," said police spokeswoman Christine Rother. "It took a while before anyone realized it was not an act but a suicide."

Artists at the Tacheles art center had videotaped the woman the evening before when she told of her suicide plans. They tried to talk her out of it and drove her home, but she returned to the arts workshop later in the evening.

Of all the nutty stories I've read in the last ... I don't know how long ... this one takes the cake. I kept expecting to read about how the dead woman exhibit had just gotten her own gallery before someone realized it was .... a DEAD WOMAN. Maybe if some enterprising artist had wheeled out a TV playing the video of her talk about killing herself, they could have gotten an NEA grant and brought that act overseas.