Juma Pariri seeks to listen and learn from plant secrets. They move in the friction between the arts of the body, undisciplined pedagogy, and the indigenous struggle for environmental justice. They are part of the social movements Retomada Kariri and the Wyka Kwara Multiethnic Association. Among others, they activate the platform AGITPORN! – POR NO a la desigualdad, for social decolonization!, to learn from indigenous ancestors about anti-monocultural sexualities, cuisines and crops, and the audiovisual springboard United against colonization: many eyes, only one heart for collective creation of other symbolic forms of self-representation of the first nations of Abya Yala. They are about to take up a post-doctoral project-flight, called Indigenous perforMAGICAL ACTivations against the farce of colonial representation, at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics (New York University).
Juma Pariri busca escutar e aprender com os segredos vegetais. Se move na fricção entre artes do corpo, pedagogia indisciplinar e luta indígena por justiça ambiental. Integra os movimentos sociais Retomada Kariri e Associação Multiétnica Wyka Kwara. Dentre outros, ativa a plataforma AGITPORN! – POR NO a la desigualdad, pela descolonização social! para aprender com as ancestrais indígenas sobre sexualidades, culinárias e plantios anti-monoculturais e o trampolim audiovisual Unides contra a colonização: muitos olhos, um só coração para criação coletiva de outras formas simbólicas de auto-representação dos povos originários de Abya Yala. Está prestes a alçar o vôo-projeto de pós-doutoramento ativAÇÕES perforMÁGICAS (in)díg(e)nas contra a farsa da representação colonial, no Instituto Hemisférico de Performance & Políticas (Universidade de Nova Iorque).
Plants and resilient Indigenous people on the walls spoke to me. I listened to them. I still try to silence myself to learn more from them. This was my first primer on how to rise as an Indigenous person and ‘bleed the stone’, transforming bodies (human and non-human) towards life and liberation.
