Winners of Loss - Nr 2
Video: HD. 9:11 minutes.
Winners Of Loss - Nr.2 (2013) by Hans Christian van Nijkerk
First video in the Winners Of Loss series.
We live in a competitive world. Our culture celebrates our best athletes, professional celebrities and popstars, not just for their attributed value, but for representing competition as a way of life.
But in a culture that values competition, there can only be winners. And when everyone wants to win, there will always be cheaters. The other competitors are not fellow human beings, people to relate to or empathize with. No, your competition is the enemy and they must be beaten. Or so the emotional logic of winning dictates.
As a former middle distance runner (active 1996-2005) , Hans Christian was used to competing in the national – and once also European – finals. Here he is interested in exploring how his life experience as an athlete has shaped him as a performer and artist.
In his «Winners of Loss» video series - shot at his former track and field stadium near Bergen, Norway - Hans Christian is trying to excel at failing. Through performing various actual and invented warm-up exercises, he plays around with the strict and absurd training regimen so central to the training program of a top athlete.
Screening premiere at Small Projects in Tromsø (Norway) January 26th 2013.
Winners Of Loss - Nr.2 (2013) by Hans Christian van Nijkerk
First video in the Winners Of Loss series.
We live in a competitive world. Our culture celebrates our best athletes, professional celebrities and popstars, not just for their attributed value, but for representing competition as a way of life.
But in a culture that values competition, there can only be winners. And when everyone wants to win, there will always be cheaters. The other competitors are not fellow human beings, people to relate to or empathize with. No, your competition is the enemy and they must be beaten. Or so the emotional logic of winning dictates.
As a former middle distance runner (active 1996-2005) , Hans Christian was used to competing in the national – and once also European – finals. Here he is interested in exploring how his life experience as an athlete has shaped him as a performer and artist.
In his «Winners of Loss» video series - shot at his former track and field stadium near Bergen, Norway - Hans Christian is trying to excel at failing. Through performing various actual and invented warm-up exercises, he plays around with the strict and absurd training regimen so central to the training program of a top athlete.
Screening premiere at Small Projects in Tromsø (Norway) January 26th 2013.