Rivering Together

Rivering Together is a limited edition of 100 hand-bound, folding-accordion artist books born of a ten-day workshop led by Manar Moursi at Dar Bellarj (Marrakesh). Gathering artists, researchers, ethnobotanists, and community members who walked the dried Ourika–Issyl watershed, the project asks what it means to live with fading water. Hand-drawn botanicals by two of the workshop’s hajjas entwine with intimate archival photographs, while essays, poems, recipes, and songs cascade through the river-like format. Framing walking, foraging, screening, and storytelling as decolonial-ecological practices, the book casts the riverbed as a space of shared relation. Contributions include reflections on drought and resilience, ancestral water wisdom, somatic rituals, and an Amazigh rain-calling song. Grounded in feminist and decolonial methodologies, the book was collaboratively developed, conceptually designed by Asma Oumahdi, and produced by Julia Fabricius.