Sitting and Smiling

Sitting and Smiling
Created byBenjamin Bennett
Presented byBenjamin Bennett
No. of episodes325
Original release
NetworkYouTube
ReleaseJuly 28, 2014 (2014-07-28) –
present
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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.

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]

  1. ^ "Benjamin Bennett - YouTube". YouTube.
  2. ^ Putney, Dean (7 October 2015). "Internet man sits and smiles at camera for hundreds of hours". Boing Boing. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  3. ^ Suzdaltsev, Jules (22 January 2015). "This Guy Is Filming Himself Sitting and Smiling for Four Hours a Day". Vice. Retrieved 17 February 2017.