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In Fountain Jeremy Wade circumvents traditional audience-performer dynamics and facilitates a generous group experience that evolves into a ritual dispossession. Wade assumes the role of preacher, shaman, and fool, by offering himself as a medium to receive and transform the energy of the theater space taking the audience on an emotional and alchemical journey. He filters the work through a practice called Fake Healing or Fake Art Therapy originally created by French Artist/Theorist Valentina Desideri. Drawing from affect theory, Desideri created a queer strategy that inspires people to practice various healing modalities with each other in an improvisatory and exploratory way outside of any authority or level of professionalism. She along with countless others are beginning to claim that symptoms of depression and anxiety in the height of advanced capitalism are no longer our own. These symptoms are so all pervasive in society that they are now structural problems and not personal problems. Fake Healing places mental and physical health in a creative domain based on a fluid relation to knowing, not knowing and pretending.

In Fountain Jeremy Wade circumvents traditional audience-performer dynamics and facilitates a generous group experience that evolves into a ritual dispossession. Wade assumes the role of preacher, shaman, and fool, by offering himself as a medium to receive and transform the energy of the theater space taking the audience on an emotional and alchemical journey. He filters the work through a practice called Fake Healing or Fake Art Therapy originally created by French Artist/Theorist Valentina Desideri. Drawing from affect theory, Desideri created a queer strategy that inspires people to practice various healing modalities with each other in an improvisatory and exploratory way outside of any authority or level of professionalism. She along with countless others are beginning to claim that symptoms of depression and anxiety in the height of advanced capitalism are no longer our own. These symptoms are so all pervasive in society that they are now structural problems and not personal problems. Fake Healing places mental and physical health in a creative domain based on a fluid relation to knowing, not knowing and pretending.

The practice can serve as a form of activism in which individuals reclaim the capacity to care for each other and ritualize. While doing so they actively dispossess them selves from the presupposed regimes of truth and authority that the Psychological and Pharma industries hold over our bodies. Fake healing takes pretending very seriously and empowers individuals to be creative and present as they care for each other.