Being With: Community – Jumana Emil Abboud

Welcome to the 23rd Biennale of Sydney podcast, Being With, featuring local and international voices from across the rīvus exhibition and program. Each episode we dissect the rich and diverse relationships we hold with nature, science and technology through creative and conceptual practices that span art, design, environmentalism and activism. 

Being With discusses ancestral and futuristic knowledge systems and cultural practices as tools for understanding. Join us and our guests to find out how our micro and macro relationships with the natural world can be understood and be nurtured.

Jumana Emil Abboud
Born 1971 in Nazareth, Occupied Palestinian Territories
Lives and works in London, England and Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories

Jumana Emil Abboud uses drawing, video, performance, objects and text to navigate themes of memory, loss and resilience. Her interests lie in oral histories, the investigation of personal and collective stories and mythologies, particularly, folk tales and their sites of being and unbeing. Her work has often reflected a Palestinian cultural landscape, in which the struggle for continuity amid the wider political context necessitates a constant process of metamorphosis and ingenuity.