Sunday 14 July 2024, 7.30pm
Muna Dajani, Yasamin Ghalehnoie, Bint Mbareh and Emilie Glazer will be offering some perspectives on land and water exploitation in Jerusalem Palestine, through the history of the River Jordan as well as the Island of Hormuz in the south of Iran.
The performance will come through the perspectives of people's relationships to the river but also the sounds of Zaar rhythms and the winds that carry them.
The researchers unfold, lose the borders of their bodies, observe linear timelines and flip them on their heads with a deeply unserious backing track and a popular view of history to keep them grounded.
The Regular Working group is a series for aggressive listening. we hope the water stories and their winding paths lead us from future to present to somewhere else.
Dr. Muna Dajani is an action researcher with a background in critical political ecology. Her work aims to understand environmental and water governance through decolonial and critical lenses, paying attention to communities' histories and relations with water and land. She holds a PhD from the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her doctoral research focused on examining community struggles for rights to water and land resources in settler colonial contexts in Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, with special attention to how farming practices acquire political subjectivity. Her work also focuses on the Upper Jordan and Yarmouk River Basins, both exploring communities disrupted relations with water in highly contested and politicised transboundary river basins.
Yasamin Ghalehnoie writes, makes docufictions, and teaches. Through time travel and trans-local collaborative processes, they write of informal economies, everyday sci-fi, and collective reproduction of resting and the commons. They hold an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London.
The night is threaded together using improvised sounds by Bint Mbareh. She is a sound researcher thinking of water in the Palestinian context as a way to challenge the epistemological authority of the settler colony. By weaving together the sonic, story-based and video research of Yasamin and Dr. Muna, Bint makes the connection between time colonisation and water colonisation across geographies with specificity and sympathy.
Emilie Glazer is an anthropologist whose research explores care, justice, and political violence in the changing ecologies of the climate crisis. Her PhD, completed at University College London and supported by the Wellcome Trust, traced the affective politics of water infrastructure in Jerusalem. Alongside academia, Emilie produces interdisciplinary community and place-based projects, and works as a design researcher.
Emilie Glazer is an anthropologist whose research explores care, justice, and political violence in the changing ecologies of the climate crisis. Her PhD, completed at University College London and supported by the Wellcome Trust, traced the affective politics of water infrastructure in Jerusalem. Alongside academia, Emilie produces interdisciplinary community and place-based projects, and works as a design researcher.
