Living Inside

Sadie Benning, Living Inside, 1989, single-channel video, black and white, sound; 05:10 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Samuel and Blanche Koffler Acquisition Fund, 2015.8.4, © 1989, Sadie Benning
Sadie Benning, Living Inside, 1989, single-channel video, black and white, sound; 05:10 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Samuel and Blanche Koffler Acquisition Fund, 2015.8.4, © 1989, Sadie Benning

Artwork Details

Title
Living Inside
Artist
Date
1989
Location
Not on view
Copyright
© 1989, Sadie Benning
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Samuel and Blanche Koffler Acquisition Fund
Mediums
Mediums Description
single-channel video, black and white, sound; 05:10 minutes
Classifications
Subjects
  • Allegory — life
Object Number
2015.8.4
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2015.8.4

Artwork Description

Sadie Benning recorded personal video diaries in the late 1980s and early 1990s while they were in high school. Using a toy PixelVision camera made by Fisher Price, Benning speaks to the machine as if they could make it understand. Their camera’s intimate field of view contrasts that of a cold and impersonal surveillance system, as they describe their feelings of alienation and the experience of self-discovery. These diaries are prescient works that portend YouTube and youthful digital culture with an extraordinary eloquence.

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Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA, iliana emilia garcía, Dreambox, from the portfolio Manifestaciones, 2010, screenprint on reflective Mylar and chine collé on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the R.P. Whitty Company and the Cooperating Committee on Architecture, 2013.28.3.4, © 2010, Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA
Dreambox, from the portfolio Manifestaciones
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Date2010
screenprint on reflective Mylar and chine collé on paper
Not on view
iliana emilia garcía, Unknown Distances, from the series Unknown Distances/Undiscovered Islands, 2006-2007, printed 2012, inkjet print on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by William W. W. Parker, 2013.32.1, © 2006, iliana emilia garcía
Unknown Distances, from the series Unknown Distances…
Artist
Date2006-2007, printed 2012
inkjet print on canvas
Not on view
iliana emilia garcía, Unknown Distances, from the series Unknown Distances/Undiscovered Islands, 2006-2007, printed 2012, inkjet print on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by William W. W. Parker, 2013.32.4, © 2006, iliana emilia garcía
Unknown Distances, from the series Unknown Distances…
Artist
Date2006-2007, printed 2012
inkjet print on canvas
Not on view

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