Join us for artist Adrià Julià’s film-performance The Penitential Tyrant: Dolores Is Pain. Offering a meditation on the history of production, consumption and expansion of popcorn in modern colonial history, the film-performance reflects on the historical and socioeconomic intricacies of the global corn industry and its relationship to Mexican culture and the popularization of popcorn in the United States after the Great Depression. The event will take place at AGO's Jackman Hall.

This program is part of Place Settings, a two-year public art project curated by Noa Bronstein. Presented in partnership with Critical Distance Centre for Curators, a not-for-profit gallery, publisher, and professional network devoted to the support and advancement of curatorial inquiry and practice in Toronto, Canada, and beyond.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire.