Death Asshole Rave Video 

2015

Are you feeling anxious and depressed? Are you working harder than ever but hardly working? How’s your digestion? Does life feel at times impossible and beyond repair? No worries, it’s not only personal, it's structural! “You’re not alone.” Says Michael Jackson. Maybe Mummy’s not feeling so well because capitalism is a multi-headed vampire on crack—whose logic runs on death, risk, volatility, blood sucking and destruction in general. Jeremy Wade’s anti-future queer classic, a gut wrenching one-man show from 2015 is called Death Asshole Rave Video, where a dead clown of an asshole brutally interrogates both death and the agreements we make as a society. In this gothic and queer-scape full of endless worm holes, shit jokes, multiple costume changes and boom, a “panic attack sing along!” Wade offers subversions of impossible repair for experiencing different deaths – death of death, death of theatre, death of value, death of sense, and death of attachment. He asks: can we take death back from the algorithms of capitalist accumulation, so it functions as a good old queer strategy for living an unlivable life outside of social reproduction? If all of the social agreements that have been made are either breaking or already broken, then what's next? Come on down for some death drives beyond surplus value and queer strategies of world making through mourning!