Interview on The Clearing – HAU2, Berlin

In this interview, held a day before the premiere of „The Clearing“ in HAU 2, May 2019, Wade charts out the social political implications of critical care and impossible repair utilized in the conception of the piece. He processes the conception of a distopic fictive space where the death of hope is center stage and yet a dreaming otherwise, a persistence for living through mourning remains.

„Jeremy Wade’s performance The Clearing created transformative moments on various levels.

First of all, the triangle of performance space, performing body and performed contents were ever changing in a minimalistic but most efficient way. For that Wade seemed to use strategies of theatre, pageants, club culture and something I am tempted to call nightmares. The use of live music gave and destroyed stabilities at all times in an exciting back and forth. But most of all it was taking the viewers into physical and mental spaces that were created on the go. I never experienced a resonance between own emotions and experiences and a performance piece in that intensity. By combining the performed and personal memories, a true new experience was inscribed into the brains of visitors, which I truly find remarkable and extraordinary.“

Daniel Neugebauer HKW, Berlin