Public displays of stillness and silence are increasingly found in contemporary life, yet have seldom been examined as social phenomena in their own right. We analyse people’s accomplishment, treatment and negotiation of an encounter with people ‘doing nothing’ – a breaching experiment comprising a group of students standing still in a city centre – and provide a granular description of the bodily practices whereby passers-by make ‘something’ out of ‘nothing’. Our ethnomethodological analysis of video recordings of the event demonstrates three practices for doing embodied noticing - looking back; slowing and pausing; stopping still - and illustrates how passers-by engage in ‘audiencing’ and ‘performing’. We propose breaching experiments as creative research and teaching interventions and discuss the socio-cultural, pedagogic and political implications of our analysis for studies of participation in public settings, especially where stillness, silence and ‘nothing’ feature.

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无中生有：在公共场所站着不动违反日常生活

在当代生活中越来越多地公开展示静止和沉默，但它们本身很少被视为社会现象。我们分析了人们在遇到“无所事事”的人时的成就、处理和谈判——一个由一群站在市中心的学生组成的突破性实验——并提供了对路人做出“某事”的身体实践的详细描述什么也没有'。我们对事件录像的民族方法学分析展示了进行具身注意的三种做法——回顾；减速和暂停；停下来 - 并说明路人如何参与“观众”和“表演”。我们建议将突破性实验作为创造性研究和教学干预措施，并讨论社会文化、