PARIRI, Juma

HOT AIR
Thursday October 10, 7 pm
630 Queen Street East

Presented in partnership with Hemispheric Encounters

HOT AIR was born out of the need to denounce the violence and extractivism practiced by carbon credit companies in Indigenous lands in South America and also to raise funds for the survival of the human and non-human Indigenous bodies that inhabit these regions. Sowers (film collaborators): Margarita Weweli-Lukana, Juma Pariri, Frê Arvora, Gurcius Gewdner, Amaya Torres, Jules Zinn, Juan Camilo Herrera Casilimas and Juliana Pongutá Forero.

Juma Pariri  is a artivist based in Abya Yala (colonially known as Latin America, more specifically in Brazil) that seeks to listen and learn from forest secrets. 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 and are part of the collective United against colonization: many eyes, one heart: an audiovisual platform for Indigenous self-representation.

Critical review Call and Response by Daniella Sanader