PERMANENT DESTRUCTION: The HM Concert

“Good evening Holland!” PERMANENT DESTRUCTION is back. Following on from last year’s The SK Concert, theatre maker Naomi Velissariou and sound designer Joost Maaskant now present The HM Concert, a theatrical concert-performance based on the work of the German playwright Heiner Müller, featuring visuals by photographer/visual artist Jan Hoek. The duo was commended by the press for its daring mix of incisive, abrasive lyrics plus a soundscape that combines danceable poppy melodies with pounding beats.

The HM Concert sees PERMANENT DESTRUCTION polishing off a range of taboos from contemporary visual culture. Emotions such as disappointment in love and misogyny currently remain invisible, because they aren’t sexy or Instagram-worthy. The performance demonstrates how fear can be curbed by honouring it, how the heaviness is lifted from your shoulders when you dance to the beat of your pain.