Joe
Pettet
Smith

It is now  2 minutes to midnight. Alongside the reality of the British and United States government's funding research models to test the robustness of contemporary civilisation, specifically attempts to predict its collapse, we are presented with a series of simulacra within mainstream entertainment that places us at the end of the world as we know it. These narratives have crept in to many aspects of popular culture from literature to cinema, video games to theatre, live action experiences and beyond. To seek these experiences could be considered as a form of voluntary pre-conditioning, physical and psychological training or meer escapism. Preparations for the Worst Case Scenario is an attempt to understand post-apocalyptic fantasies as a pursuit of leisure.

This project is a work-in-progress and as a result is still in development.