In 1979 Kohei Yoshiyuki had a show in a gallery with all the lights off, if you came to the opening you were given a flashlight to look at the life size photographs hanging on the wall. After the show came down he destroyed all of the prints.
NY Times article on photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki the slideshow with audio commentary
That is messed up, hard-core, and cool as hell.
Yeah, I wish I knew more about the destruction of the originals . . .