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February 9, 2010
Art student convicted over faked psychosis
Published: 31 Aug 09 13:35 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/21794/20090831/
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Art student Anna Odell has been fined by Stockholm District Court after acting out a faked suicide attempt as part of an art project.
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Odell had denied the charges of false alarm, violent resistance and fraudulent practice, date back to January 21st 2009 when she was detained by police on Stockholm's Liljeholmen bridge following what at first appeared to be an attempt to commit suicide.
She was then taken to the psychiatric ward at St. Göran's Hospital for treatment, only to reveal the following day that the whole episode had been faked as a part of her final art exam at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack).
Odell, who has a history of mental illness, explained that she was highlighting deficiencies in Sweden's psychiatric care which she has argued to be "the most dictatorial part of society we have" where "patients are sometimes not believed".
While her actions have drawn criticism from police and medical staff, the opening of the exhibition of her work at the college in May generated a great deal of interest in the art world and wider media.
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"Wow, seems you all have not understood the point of her project!"
Her point was to cause a disruption and she did? She was like the boy who yelled wolf, too many times. The wolf got the boy and had she suceeded at her sucide attempt, everyone would have been upset because society failed to respond to her cry of sucide.
If the police stopped herfrom her suicide attempt, then the system worked.
Great input Scornful_Luigi some things are just best kept to one´s self
The debate she seems to have provoked is more about what is permissible in the name of art and self-promotion, and not so much about the treatment of mental health patients. Was her point meant to be that psychiatric care locks people up and forgets about them? That people are not released as soon as they can be? That the carers don't listen to what the patients tell them? I think she managed to disprove all those things, while tying up valuable resources that could have been used to help someone who really needed them.
Thanks to my comment, the article was updated and corrected.
So, what do you mean by your drunk comment? Are you an ignorant who can't spell too? Good night.
just as I suspected.... now I am ignorant and cant spell why don't you go and jump back under that rock you came from loser
whats the point can anyone explain this
Misssh is right. If you are going to come down on people about their spelling, you should be damn good at it yourself.
Then how come you can't even spell the word SHOULDN'T?
I still can't really judge if the girl is guilty or not... taken the context, she is considering herself a policeman on duty to reveal the truth in an artistic scenario, maybe with an over dose of "purpose justifies the means".