Listening to the Holy Tune of Collapse
Imagine a PowerPoint presentation: half-hearted, inspirational words about recovering from postpartum depression. Then wrecking balls. Something about seeking God. A grunting choir. Lukewarm finger food and pop icon Slutty Suzy playing a hyperpop banger about having kids in a hopeless world. A white noise box. What begins as an uplifting speech about overcoming an existential crisis explodes into liberating noise.
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NOISE
Weren’t people once promised a future of stability and progress? Instead of prosperity, peace, and the fruits of the tech boom, all systems now threaten to collapse.
Climate catastrophe, wars, fascism: people are living in times of polycrisis. The news is almost impossible to process and puts us in a state of constant stress. How can our senses learn to cope with this overwhelming pressure without becoming numb?
In the intense, immersive performance opera NOISE, Club Gewalt dives with the audience into the din of doomsday prophecies—and sings at the top of their lungs against them. The goal: to learn to love again, to be human.
Club Gewalt is a music-based performance collective from Rotterdam. Driven by resistance to injustice and a love for togetherness, they create, compose, produce, and perform their own works: from feminist punk Christmas musicals and somber operas on the theme of institutional racism to club nights in museums and political slutpop concerts. Always musically virtuosic, witty, and somehow uncomfortable.
WITH Loulou Hameleers, Suzanne Kipping, Robbert Klein, Gerty van de Perre, and Sanna Vrij
