A flash mob convened inside the National Portrait Gallery's embattled exhibition Hide/Seek yesterday to play a video removed from the exhibition after conservative pressure – the same action that got two protesters temporarily banned from the Smithsonian last year – for the exhibition's last day.

A cluster of protesters convened in Hide/Seek shortly before noon with the film "A Fire in My Belly" by David Wojnarowicz queued up on their phones, and played the video in the gallery as guards looked on. According to artist Adrian Parsons, who has been involved in prior Hide/Seek protests, none of the flash mobbers were detained by Smithsonian security. In a tweet, Parsons said that the flash mob lasted 13 minutes and that "someone lost $20 when I wasn't arrested."

Mike Blasenstein and Michael Dax Iacovone were detained by Smithsonian security shortly after the Smithsonian removed the Wojnarowicz video from the exhibition for showing the film on an iPad in the museum. It is believed to be the first use of an iPad for a protest in the U.S. The pair went on to found the Museum of Censored Art, a trailer showing the Wojnarowicz film outside of the Portrait Gallery, which also closed yesterday. Though they were temporarily banned from the Smithsonian, that ban was lifted last week.

Watch the flash mob not getting banned from the Smithsonian below:

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