2021 Ein al Uwayneh water mapping IMG 4605 1536x1143 — Jumana Emil Abboud, *The Water Diviners*, Palestine group, water-mapping, 2021.

As part of These Seasons, SI is pleased to present A River’s Keepers, a collective storytelling performance led by artist Jumana Emil Abboud. Foregrounding “mythed” and embodied relations to water sources both near and far through spoken word and mark-making, this performance emerges from a series of workshops with a select group of participants held between February and April 2025. The event will involve Abboud and her workshop participants collaboratively constructing a narrative based on their personal and social connections to rivers and streams in New York and beyond.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

Jumana Emil Abboud is a Palestinian Canadian artist whose practice draws on folk tales, water lore, and interconnected human and more-than-human legacies. Merging cultural tradition with contemporary life, she explores the continuity of stories and landscapes past dispossession. Her multi-disciplinary practice has been included in exhibitions and Biennales, among them, the Diriyah Biennale (2024); documenta 15 (2022); the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022); the Jerusalem Show (2009, 2018); the Venice Biennale (2009, 2015), the Sharjah Biennale (2005, 2011); and solo exhibitions at Cample Line (2023); Tavros Athens (2022); the Khaled Shoman Foundation Darat al Funun, Bildmuseum University, Umea (2017); and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (2016). Abboud is currently a Jameel Fellow at the V&A London, in partnership with Cirva, Marseille.

These Seasons is an ongoing transdisciplinary public program that invites artists, scholars and writers to explore theories of nature, landscape, ecology, human and non-human life forms and climate action.

These Seasons is made possible by Teiger Foundation.