OCAD U remembers Vassil Popvassilev
Former faculty member Popvassilev taught in the Faculty of Design for more than a decade.
October 24, 2023
PE ATAJU JUMALI/HOT AIR a film by Juma Pariri
PE ATAJU JUMALI/HOT AIR a film by Juma Pariri
Indigenous Brazilian: Juma Pariri
- Tuesday, Oct 24, 7 pm
- MCA 190, OCAD University auditorium (100 McCaul St 1 level)
- All welcome
Juma Pariri is an artivist based in Abya Yala that seeks to listen and learn from forest (r)existences. They move in the friction between the arts of the body, undisciplined pedagogy, and the Indigenous struggle for environmental justice. Among others, they activate the performance platform AGITPORN! – no to inequality, for social decolonization!, to learn (and create) from indigenous ancestors about anti-monocultural processes around sexualities, foods, crops, "cannibalism", menstruation and rituals. Their current research project is called (In)dig(e)nous perforMAGICAL ACTivations against the farce of colonial representation. They also curate events that unite arts and Indigenous cultures, as the: MIACAY - Indigenous Exhibition of Performing Arts in Abya Yala: dance the impossible to move worlds.
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This special Toronto screening, part of the Abya Yala Sowing Tour 2023, is organized in partnership with OCAD University Graduate Studies, Pleasure Dome, and York University: Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology, Centre for Feminist Research, Indigeneity in Teaching and Learning Fund, and Hemispheric Encounters Network.
The Abya Yala Sowing Tour 2023 is a series of public screenings of Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air and artist talks with filmmaker and performance artist Juma Pariri (Hemispheric Encounters collaborator and former Postdoctoral Fellow) across Brazil, Colombia, Canada, and the USA. The Abya Yala Sowing Tour is co-presented by Hemispheric Encounters and Collective United Against Colonization: Many Eyes One Heart.
Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air is an experimental, magical, performative storytelling by the forest creatures of the Global South of their perforMAGIC ACTivations that reveal the face of the carbon credit system of the global north that purports to protect forests. In the film, the forest creatures reveal this great farce and invite everyone into a great cosmic spiral in which environmental justice, Indigenous knowledge, and lives are centered.
Abya Yala is the Indigenous Kuna name for the continent known as America. Abya Yala means flourishing land. In this series of exhibitions across Brazil, Colombia, USA, and Canada, we will share our audiovisual seeds to sow other possible worlds together here and now.
Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air is a short film produced by the following artists’ sowings: Margarita Weweli-Lukana, Juma Pariri, Frê Arvora, Gurcius Gewdner, Amaya Torres, Jules Zinn, Juan Camilo Herrera Casilimas, and Juliana Pongutá Forero.