Victoria Brännström’s Pole Position, 2006, deals with how the artist and some of her friends become increasingly bold or foolhardy as they practice driving on a skidpan – which leads to a better result. The starting point of her work is research into how boys, from an early age, learn to play in a way that is different from that of girls. Boys enter into their games and try out new roles time and again with the greatest enthusiasm. In this way they increase their self-esteem and their ability to extend their territory. ‘I want to study how it is possible, as an adult, to acquire new qualities through play. My goal is to achieve or to lay my hands on a quality and to find the courage to take a step towards this conquest’. (…) ‘Courage, foolhardiness or a lack of respect can lead to experiences that then become new knowledge and the theory of subject positioning in play is a method that makes it possible to challenge oneself and one’s own limitations’. (quoted from www.victoriabrannstrom.com)