Exercise in Resilience | 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:

Nguyen Phuong Linh, Memory of the Blind Elephant, 2016
Nguyen Trinh Thi, How to Improve the World, 2021
Wang Tuo, The Interrogation, 2017

Date:

Friday, January 24, 2025 | 5:30pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum

Image: Wang Tuo, The Interrogation, 2017, (video still)