Exercise in Grieving | Closed World Film Program

The four-part exercises build and unbuild a “closed world” progressively and collaboratively, through community participation. Accordingly, the exercises are designed as a generative system which replicates multiple environments including the home, the theater, and the gallery space. A ‘closed-world’ or ‘closed-loop system’ examines the earth as a whole—as a complete and interconnected system.

Closed World, co-curated by Innocent Ekejiuba and Erika Mei Chua Holum, is a four-part film program including works by an international roster of contemporary artists designed as four exercises in healing. The film series is presented in conjunction with Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions – an exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston that is co-organized with KADIST – San Francisco and offered as part of the 2024 Texas Biennial: The Last Sky.

Films:

Chan Teik Quan, Weeping Birds, 2018
Pooja Gurung & Bibhusan Basnet, DADYAA: The Woodpeckers of Rotha, 2018
Saige Kanik, After We’re Gone, 2024
Runo Lagomarsino, Yo también soy humo (I am also smoke), 2020
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, The Class, 2005

Date:

Friday, November 8, 2024 | 5:30pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum

Image: Chan Teik Quan, Weeping Birds (2018), video still. Courtesy the artist, by KADIST collection.