A four-part film program presented in conjunction with Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions.

To coincide with Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions, Innocent Ekejiuba and Erika Mei Chua Holum co-curate a four-part film program entitled Closed World. The film program is designed as four exercises in healing, encompassing grief, memory/remembrance, resilience, and rebuilding/recovery. 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. The Closed World film program will be held in venues in Texas (Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; The Contemporary, Austin), Indonesia (inaugural Friendship Pavilion in 900mdpl biennale in Kaliurang, Yogyakarta, in collaboration with curators Mira Asriningtyas and Dito Yuwono); and in Peru (Proyecto AMIL, Lima). Expanding the community conversation of the exercises, each venue additionally invites artists as part of the film programs.

A closed world is built and unbuilt through the progression of the four-part exercises and the community’s participation. The film program is predicated on the credo that it is not enough to talk about healing or grief, a complete healing process must be undertaken as a community in order to ensure that rebirth happens on a communal scale.