Respiriting: The Water Diviners

A free public performance, presented in conjunction with Jumana Emil Abboud’s solo exhibition The Storyteller and the Obedient Tide (on show to 28 June), that continues the Jameel’s exploration of water, folklore and collective storytelling with a new iteration of artist the artist’s ongoing Water Diviners practice. This spoken word performance is the culmination of Respiriting the Water Diviners, a workshop series bringing together UAE-based participants to locate stories of spirited water sources across the region and beyond in the form of a collectively authored work weaving personal stories and endangered knowledge into myth-made, water-worked tales of resilience and renewal.

Participants of the workshops:

Dima Abou Zannad
Fatema Alafaliq
Maha Alasaker
Azim Al Ghussein
Hala El Abora
Anna Escobar
Aroma Joshi
Andrew Riad
Tooba Shaikh
Divya Walia