Sitting and Smiling
Art performance by Benjamin Bennett / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sitting and Smiling is an endurance art performance by Benjamin Bennett. In a typical performance, Bennett looks into a video camera which is recording him while sitting and smiling motionless for four hours.
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Sitting and Smiling | |
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Created by | Benjamin Bennett |
Presented by | Benjamin Bennett |
No. of episodes | 325 |
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Network | YouTube |
Release | July 28, 2014 (2014-07-28) ā present |
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Bennett uploaded his first Sitting and Smiling video on July 28, 2014. Over the next several years, he uploaded similar videos at a rate of about one per week. Currently, his videos have earned more than 31 million views with over 380,000 subscribers.[1][2]
Bennett cites Claire Bishop's 2012 Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship as an inspiration for his art.[3]