Performance artist performing dumb "art" ironically raped & murdered; world lols

[TVC15]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/theater/19peac.html?ex=1366344000&en=b218e6fc9e236676&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

The two friends, both performance artists, hatched the idea about a year ago: wearing white wedding dresses, they would hitchhike from Italy to the Balkans to the Middle East to send a message of peace and “marriage between different peoples and nations.”

“She thought that in the world there were more positive than negative people, and that it was right to be trusting,” said Rosalia Pasqualino, a sister of Ms. Bacca, whose real name was Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo. “Trust is a very human factor, and she believed that to understand people, you had to get to know them.”

Her naked body was found on April 11 in some bushes near a Turkish village after a suspect led investigators to the site. Although an official cause of death has not been given, local Turkish authorities said Ms. Bacca had been raped and strangled.

I always need that Monday reminder that the world isn't shit just to me.

[Van Cruncheon]

i am honestly torn between "wow, that's really tragically awful" and "lol, hitchhiking in the middle east in a wedding dress"

[Tauntaun]

“She thought that in the world there were more positive than negative people, and that it was right to be trusting,” said Rosalia Pasqualino, a sister of Ms. Bacca, whose real name was Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo. “Trust is a very human factor, and she believed that to understand people, you had to get to know them.”

Trust is good but it must be proceeded by wisdom, apparently this woman lacked it. SMH  Sucks though.   

[Flannel Boy]

“She thought that in the world there were more positive than negative people, and that it was right to be trusting,” said Rosalia Pasqualino,

Even if true, the "negative people" that are in the world can still cause a great deal of misery--as she unfortunately learned. And pretty much everyone else is capable of causing a great deal of misery to some extent.

[Van Cruncheon]

yeah, she didn't deserve it, but if she'd take a REAL look at the world around her before letting her optimism gland overrule her common sense, she'd 've seen LOTS OF FOLKS what don't deserve it getting it bad

i understand that she wanted to send a message of "hey, folks are all secretly nice, look at me," but she was GAMBLING, and with a gun that had five chambers loaded. she coulda dropped four of those bullets just by moving her pilgrimage 1000 miles northwest. ironically, martyrdom will help her cause more than the art she was attempting -- even as it utterly murders the optimistic spirit of the venture.

the world isn't nice. the world collectively isn't worthy of trust until we get 100% buyoff from all individuals. until then, we're just animals that are really good at making excuses.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Hitchhiking in the middle east. LOL

[FlameOfCallandor]

How does hitchhiking send a message of peace and understanding?

[Phoenix Dark]

beats me. i don't know what's more shitty: "art" or creationism

[FlameOfCallandor]

or Hippies.

[Eric P]

that's really unfortunate

[cloudwalking]

Turkey is a pretty safe country to go backpacking in. Except if you're dressed like an looney I guess, and close to the Iraqi border.

Still sad though.

yeah i always got the impressions that the turkish folk are pretty easygoing, but there are crazies everywhere i guess!

tragic story

[Fragamemnon]

I've always gotten the impression from Turks-a good friend in college dated the daughters of one of their secular aristocrat families in Istanbul and I've worked with people in the region on some business deals-that the country has very deep ethnic, cultural, and religious fissures that are essentially impossible to reconcile. Those fissures definitely do have an impact on the populace.

Also, if you asked a turk from their upper class in Instanbul who did it and why they did it, theyd tell you it was a "savage kurdish monkey" or something similar.

[CajoleJuice]

[DJ_Tet]

Although the irony here is certainly startling, am I the only one who thought this might have been that girl who faked all those abortions for art?

[AdmiralViscen]

I think that turned out to be a hoax.

Oh wait, you said faked lol

[Tauntaun]

Although the irony here is certainly startling, am I the only one who thought this might have been that girl who faked all those abortions for art?

How do you fake an abortion use a bloody doll or something?

[DJ_Tet]

A bloody doll?  wtf 



I think she used a couple of splotches of tobasco, I didn't get the impression there were actual body parts in her art 

[Tauntaun]

Oh, well a bloody doll might have been more effective, idk.

[AdmiralViscen]

I think she used macaroni salad with food coloring.

The bits of celery gave it away.

[Tauntaun]

That's lame she should have used some sausage for arms or something.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Although the irony here is certainly startling, am I the only one who thought this might have been that girl who faked all those abortions for art?

she is awesome and should get an EB account

[DJ_Tet]

That's lame she should have used some sausage for arms or something.

How about an unraveled phone cord?

[Tauntaun]

That's lame she should have used some sausage for arms or something.

How about an unraveled phone cord?

See now you're thinking.