Hans Christian van Nijkerk
Hans Christian van Nijkerk (b.1982, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a performance artist, visual artist and musician who lives in Stavanger, Norway. After a successful career as middle-distance runner and years of gaining stage experience through music performances, he studied at the Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art. In his performances, he inhabits a variety of stage personas ranging from energetic and charismatic motivational speakers to more introverted eccentrics. Both serious and playful, he toys with the audience. Voluntarily or involuntarily they become test subjects for his social experiments through their predictable or unpredictable reactions (or lack thereof), following or disobeying instructions and games.
Website can be found here: www.kerkart.com
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