Eva & Franco Mattes

    In “No Fun” Franco Mattes stages his suicide in a public web cam in a chat room. Over a thousand random people watched while he was hanging from the ceiling, swinging slowly for hours. The video documentation of the performance is super realistic and at times very disturbing. Out of the thousands of people who watched this there was a lot of different reactions. Some people laughed, some are completely unmoved, some people just sit there and make fun of him, and some people evens take pictures with their cell phones. Out of several thousand people, only one person actually called the police.

    I had to watch this video on someone's blog because the decumentation was originally put up on YouTube but was quickly banned and taken off the website. The video received a lot of different reactions from everybody and its interesting to see how confused and heartless some people can be. There are people who just sit there and laugh while Franco Mattes is literally hanging from the ceiling. I think its unbelievable that only one person actually called the police. When Franco Mattes was interviewed about this performance he said that many people live on the Internet so he wanted to "die" on it. I think that's a powerful statement because that's so true, many people are living their lives through a computer screen now a days. And i think his message is a powerful one.