As part of 2025’s public program, the GOR team presented a participatory activation rooted in lived experience, shared space, and resilience. Emerging from contexts of spatial constraint—including experiences of imprisonment—Pabelit explored how creativity and collectivity could generate space where there was none.

The project took its name from a Sundanese word meaning “entangled” or “convoluted”, and referred to a series of practices developed using only the most modest materials available—plastic bags, hands, time, and presence. At Swab, Pabelit became an invitation: a shared making session where participants engaged in a quiet, mnemonic process, collectively transforming plastic waste into something symbolic and tactile.

Rather than focusing on objects, the emphasis was on process, collaboration, and being together. This action was both a gesture of remembrance and a tool for creating community within the fair—an intimate way of sharing space, story, and material. Participants were invited to bring used plastic bags and take part in a 2-hour session that culminated in a collectively created object whose final form remained open to possibility.