Exercise of Remembrance and Memory | 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:

Aline Baiana, At that time when everything was human, 2016
Martha Colburn, Western Wild … or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand, 2017
Chitra Ganesh, Silhouette in the Graveyard, 2018
Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Invalid Throne, 2018
Thania Petersen, KASSARAM, 2020
Sriwhana Spong, Beach Study, 2012

Date:

Friday, December 6, 2024 | 2pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum

Image: Chitra Ganesh, Silhouette in the Graveyard (2018), video still. Courtesy the artist, licensed by KADIST for its programs.