Pleasure Dome is pleased to co-present the Toronto screening of Juma Pariri’s film Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air (Ar Quente). This is the Canadian premiere of the Indigenous artist’s experimental short film. This event is presented in partnership with OCAD Graduate Studies and York University’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology, the Centre for Feminist Research, and the Hemispheric Encounters Network. Reception with Juma Pariri to follow.
Part of Fall 2023
Pleasure Dome is proud to co-present the Canadian premiere of Indigenous artist Juma Pariri’s experimental short film Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air (Ar Quente).
Where: OCADU Auditorium, 100 McCaul Street, Room 190, Toronto
When: Tuesday, October 24 at 7pm EST
Reception with Juma Pariri to follow.
This is a mask-friendly event.
This special Toronto screening is part of the Abya Yala Sowing Tour 2023 is organized in partnership with OCAD Graduate Studies and from York University: The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology, Centre for Feminist Research, and Hemispheric Encounters Network. Please join us in welcoming Juma Pariri to Toronto.
The Abya Yala Sowing Tour 2023 is a series of public screenings of Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air (Ar Quente) and artist talks with filmmaker and performance artist Juma Pariri, (Hemispheric Encounters collaborator and former Postdoctoral Fellow) across Brazil, Colombia, Canada, and the USA. produly co-presented by Hemispheric Encounters and Collective United Against Colonization: Many eyes One Heart.
Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air (Ar Quente) 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.
This film was 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.
