Super Massive Musical Chairs

Grabowsee Artist Residency, Germany, August 2025

A participatory piece inviting people to play musical chairs and reflect on their experiences of something running running running, then suddenly being whipped away from them.

Songs that you associate with a time your fling ended with feeling flung off a bus. When you came home from work carrying your ‘employee of the month’ trophy in a crushed cardboard box. When life spins on round and round, running predictably from track 1 to 2, to 3, then SCRATCH! What album did you listen to when your heart was first broken? Smashed that cd? 

The sound of something snapping. Divorce. Chaos. Climate change. 

Then the anxiety that lingers in your bones for the next time STRUCK DOWN! And if you strip down to your naked feelings under the ‘functional’ cosy clothes of your day-to-day, you find the lump of anticipation for the end, already growing. The ‘it’s not you, it’s me’, the floods, the ‘please see me in my office, it won’t take long.’ Shift to a minor key. Car Crash! And the seconds you start to swerve. 

Slipped into a new cycle. From the soundtracks to the ‘bigger picture’ stuff, to the sweet little songs that can pull you out of a super massive spiralling mood. 

Super Massive Black Hole was the album I cried to when I was first dumped .