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Bibilography
21 Feburary 2025 - DUMP Doom Simulator
(Dump Archive, 2025) (Dump Archive, 2025)
The DUMP Archive is a artist-led initiative I’ve been following for a while, they resist institutional structures by collecting, storing, and redistributing art on its own terms. What stands out in its approach is the commitment to community-built systems and low-tech infrastructures.
The Archive of Forgotten Forms (DUMP Archive 2025), curated by DUMP at Seager Gallery, further explored this idea. Alongside seven artists' works, the exhibition featured DUMP Doom Simulator, a surreal Unreal Engine game that utilises 46 digitised “abandoned” artworks. The display invites users to navigate ruins and recover vanished objects of artworks in a simulated post-apocalyptic landscape, disrupting traditional archival authority and hinting at the fragility and mutability of cultural memory. Along with custom-printed vinyls attached to the surroundings of the installation, it's an experience that visitors engage with and are involved in, rather than simply being presented with.
This felt directly relevant to my project. In my NAC space,the home stories web space, personal archives such as interviews, 3D objects, pictures and videos are scattered across a digital terrain. Like the DUMP simulator, my work asks the viewer to navigate fragmented memory, rather than view it linearly. I was especially drawn to the game’s blend of decay, and archival tension, which speaks to how digital preservation is less about control and more about participation and reactivation. The show reminded me that archives can be speculative, open-ended, and playful, yet still deeply personal and political, which is something I carry forward into how I gather and recontextualise other people’s stories of home.