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This essay is an excerpt from Jumana Emil Abboud’s ongoing journal, which she started keeping in 2010. With the help of photographer Issa Freij, the artist identified spirited water spots in the topography of Palestine, based on her childhood memories and a 1922 study on Haunted Springs and Water Demons in Palestine. The text was written as part of a performance by Abboud at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in 2016.
Keywords: Childhood memories; Palestine; Spirited water spots; Topography
Rights: © by the author(s). Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Part of War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments Containing:
Foreword / Françoise Vergès
War-torn Ecologies: Human and More-​​than-​Human Intersections of Ethnography and the Arts / Umut Yıldırım
Mulberry Affects: Ecology, Memory, and Aesthetics on the Shores of the Tigris River in the Wake of Genocide / Umut Yıldırım
Who’s Afraid of Ideology? / Marwa Arsanios
Note the Ghosts: Among the More-than-Living in Iraq / Kali Rubaii
Great Sand: Grains of Occupation and Representation / Nadine Hattom
Hide Your Water from the Sun: A Performance for Spirited Waters
Of Goats and Bombs: How to Live (and Die) in an Explosive Landscape / Munira Khayyat
Title
Hide Your Water from the Sun
Subtitle
A Performance for Spirited Waters
Author(s)
Jumana Emil Abboud
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-27_6
Description
This essay is an excerpt from Jumana Emil Abboud’s ongoing journal, which she started keeping in 2010. With the help of photographer Issa Freij, the artist identified spirited water spots in the topography of Palestine, based on her childhood memories and a 1922 study on Haunted Springs and Water Demons in Palestine. The text was written as part of a performance by Abboud at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in 2016.
Is Part Of
War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
19 September 2023
Subject
Childhood memories
Palestine
Spirited water spots
Topography
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
121
page end
138
Source
War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East, ed. by Umut Yıldırım, Cultural Inquiry, 27 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 121–38
Cite as: Jumana Emil Abboud, ‘Hide Your Water from the Sun: A Performance for Spirited Waters’, in War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East, ed. by Umut Yıldırım, Cultural Inquiry, 27 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 121-38 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-27_6>