/Find the Archive is an interactive point and click game where the user is searching for an undisclosed archive. Throughout this journey the viewer is travelling a non-existent world following traces of this archive. Throughout the journey you discover confrontations intended for the viewer to question their own right to the archive.

This work explores my own interest in archives, specifically with their accessibility, whose histories are told within them and whose histories are left out. As a queer, working class man I have always felt excluded from finding or accessing my own histories. It wasn’t until the weight of a MA behind me that there was access to institutional archives. I want the viewer to ask themselves why doesn’t this belong to me, who does it belong to and should it belong to anyone.

PLAY THE GAME

‘In Find the Archive, access itself becomes the problem. Moving through a fictional world in search of an undisclosed archive, the viewer is confronted with questions of ownership and exclusion: who is able to find their history, who has been kept outside of it, and whether an archive can ever truly belong to everyone.’ - Prokofiev Studio