Humans are so competitive they will design a contest around anything -or nothing. In 2014, Korean artist Woopsyang launched the Space-Out competition. The contestants do nothing at all. You can be disqualified for talking, looking at your phone, or falling asleep. If you make it through 90 minutes, the winner is determined by your heart rate, which is measured every 15 minutes, plus the opinions of the spectators, which often rely on the posted motivation for each contestant and the costume they wear. What does a costume have to do with spacing out? Nothing, but it draws publicity and spectators.
The 2025 Space-out Competition was held last month in Melbourne. The winner was Amelia Lumley, pictured above, wearing a working fountain as a costume. She said her strategy was to imagine herself as a sea sponge, but later she admitted that the running water was designed to make other contestants feel the need to pee. Read about the Space-Out contest at the Guardian. -via Metafilter