surplus: numbers are ruining me, documentantion of the performance
Running and statistical recording are not new phenomena for humans, but seen together they offer a foray into the system of non-objects that has an increasing stake in having control over biological bodies. The only truly essential pieces of equipment in modern exercise are numbers according to Mark Greif. And while almost everybody is a statistical person, modern exercise can be seen as an example of how statistics of self-tracking bring ideas of efficiency to a very intimate level. Being an amateur is all of a sudden a very serious job.
This was an endurance performance that looked at the fragility of human body while fulfilling the desire to collect, store, and analyze data that the body emits on the way towards an imagined finish line. Where does self-fulfillment through numbers become self-indulgence? That is the question the performer asked, as being on a treadmill was at least as much about failure as it was about achievements.
