PS2 and Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive presents:
The Regeneration Game
Exhibition and rolling archive screenings
Friday 3rd of October until Saturday 8th November 2025
PS2 Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, 12-5pm
On Thursday 2nd October and Thursday 6th November the exhibition is open 6pm-9pm as part of Late Night Art.
FREE ADMISSION
This group exhibition mobilises art and archive as tools for collective resistance, to interrogate housing as one of the defining and persistent socio-political inequalities of our time. Play NAMACO’s 16-bit video game Mega Dreoilín, to learn about the bureaucratic land dominance imposed on Ireland by successive waves of colonisers, landlords and global multinationals, as well as the strategies required for collective resistance against these sinister powers. Encounter GOT DAMP, an installation that explores damp as 'a crisis of nature in the home’, including a 30-minute film made partially with a thermal camera, documenting the lived experience of households who live with damp in their homes and the materiality of damp itself. Artist-in-residence Marta Dyczkowska invites you to contribute to the radical mapping of Belfast to see if collective nostalgia can be a catalyst for change. Delve into archival fragments of housing issues and activism, through the lens of news reporters, documentary and community film makers. The rolling archive and screenings are programmed by Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive and guests throughout the exhibition.
ABOUT
NAMACO emerges from a decaying Dublin to unleash bizarre edutainment products on unsuspecting landlords. Headed by Han Hogan and Donal Fullam, NAMACO makes video games that demystify housing precarity, cultural space scarcity and the effects of corporate landlordism in Dublin for a generation of renters unwillingly trapped in adolescence. Featuring a cast of characters which includes Avril Corroon, Ian Lynch and Rory Hearne, Mega Dreoilín posits that Ireland’s age-old land question is not as complicated as our political representatives would have us believe.16-bit video game Mega Dreoilín is a radical reimagining of edutainment designed for the demographic of ‘Generation Rent’. Positioning itself as a revolutionary instructional manual, Mega Dreoilín helps players to learn about the bureaucratic land dominance imposed on Ireland by successive waves of colonisers, landlords and global multinationals, as well as the strategies required for collective resistance against these sinister powers.
Avril Corroon’s GOT DAMP is an installation that explores damp as 'a crisis of nature in the home' and the experience of the precariat within contemporary Britain and Ireland. The project worked with communities across South East London and the Community Action Tenants Union in Dublin, exchanging with 55 households. Avril provided energy efficient dehumidifiers and support to manage damp, whilst households contributed experiences, ideas and collected 1800L of water in dehumidifiers. The collected water from the dehumidifiers is exhibited alongside a 30min film which was made partially with a thermal camera documenting the lived experience of households who live with damp in their homes and the materiality of damp itself. GOT DAMP was originally commissioned and exhibited by TACO! in London and Project Arts Centre in Dublin.
Through a series of Open House events, Marta will invite community participation through radical mapping, objects, screenings, and oral history exploring collective nostalgia as a catalyst for change. Alongside the responses she gathers, Marta will embark on processes of drawing, performance, and printing, using this residency period to develop a new body of work.
Open House schedule:
Saturday 18th October: 12pm – 2pm Eventbrite link
Saturday 25th October: 12pm – 2pm Eventbrite link
Thursday 30th October: 4pm – 6pm Eventbrite link
Exhibition Location:
PS2, Property House, 11 Rosemary Street, Belfast, BT1 1QA
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Venue Access Guide: https://www.pssquared.org/assets/ps2-accessibility-and-inclusion-guide---march-2025.docx.pdf
Artists
Avril Corroon
Avril (she/her) works with sculpture, installation, moving image, performance, and social practice to explore situations and sites, especially cities, where precarious conditions and neoliberal ideology have become everyday. Avril’s website
Marta Dyczkowska
Marta (she/her) born in 1980 in Poland, is a visual artist in Belfast, where she is a member of Vault Artist Studios. Her artistic practice revolves around considering spaces and societal shifts, using remnants of material culture, architecture, memory, and archives. Marta’s website
Dónal Fullam (NAMACO)
Dónal (he/him) is Assistant Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries, based in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. His research deals with music and art in contemporary algorithmic culture, human-computer creative relationships and intersections between art and technology in general. Dónal’s Instagram
Han Hogan (NAMACO)
Han Hogan (she/they) is an artist with a background in science. They regularly collaborate with other practitioners on projects, which include a radio show celebrating experiments in music and sounds by genderqueer and marginalised communities, and a mobile screenprinting unit which is used as a press for housing activist groups. Han’s Instagram
Thank you to the artists and our partners PS2 and Belfast Film Festival.
