Christin Nichols: »The longer i stare at you the less you make sense«

With her Commissioned Work »The longer i stare at you the less you make sense«, actress and musician Christin Nichols takes Pop-Kultur audiences on an artistic journey to the years 1996, 2010 and 2024. Together with her fellow artists Stefan Ernst, Simeon Cöster, Sinem Kilic, Marc Gundermann and Aaron Blank, she creates original sound episodes that not only pick up on significant moments in music history, using them to explore the eternally valid question of how we humans find happiness in life.
If you’re a musician, do you need a big hit to validate your work? Do you have to have a successful career in order to find a greater purpose? Or is it perhaps enough to mould your love of music into songs with other people? Christin Nichols and her ensemble explore these questions with an interdisciplinary approach, mixing theatre and concert, based on a story about a budding music journalist named Eiko.
The performative episodes will be accompanied by music from Nichols’ band (Simeon Cöster and Aaron Blank). A musical performance about failure, desire and the question of whether some wishes are better left unfulfilled.
Christin Nichols currently releases her music on her label My Own Party Records, a name she chose very consciously, as it represents her ambition to create a big unifying party for feminists, post-punk fans, melancholics, theatre fans and all other kindred spirits with her music and performances. Joining it means a collective saving of ourselves – what could be better?

Credits: Christin Nichols (directing & music), Simeon Cöster (acting & music), Aaron Blank (acting), Stefan Ernst (music), Sinem Kilic (music), Marc Gundermann (music).