Accounts of the Apocalypse
Medium: Artist’s books, found objects, inkjet prints
On behalf of The Archives Department, we invite you to investigate and piece together the start of the apocalypse through found objects belonging to the survivors who witnessed it happen.
In the year 2014, the world ended, leading to the deaths of over 95% of the world’s population. The remaining 5% were left to survive in a diseased world. The survivors in Lakewood, Virginia are the reason we, The Archives Department, know of the virus's origin. Through diary entries, scientific notes, photographs, music, and drawings we collected, future generations will know what it was like to live before, and survive after, the end of the world.
Van's Diary gives us a glimpse into the life of a survivor of the Apocalypse. Over the two years of entries from 2014 to 2016, we see how Van's life was forever changed. Read to find out how she chose survival over death, how she navigates coming of age in a post-apocalyptic world, and how she discovered the true reason the world ended. Lakewood, Virginia. 2014 – 2016
Bank’s Playlist for the Apocalypse is a series of CDs illustrated with the daily activities a punk teenager would get up to at the end of the world. Between 2015 and 2016, Bank spent his days burning down Lakewood, laying awake disturbed by the things he's seen, and living his best life in the town he used to hate. Lakewood, Virginia. 2015 – 2016
Evidence of the Lakewood Simian Lab is a collection of pictures on a Nintendo 3DS taken at the Lab where the Amorphovirus-14 Primatus was studied and eventually spread to begin humanity’s demise. Lakewood, Virginia. 2016.
