Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road is the outcome of a collective
undertaking that came about from Jimmie Durham who gathered together a group of artists in 2021
to form a community on the road and contribute in collaboration with him to documenta fifteen
in Kassel in 2022. Durham did not expect the members of the collective -Bev Koski Elisa
Strinna Hamza Badran Iain Chambers Joen Vedel Jone Kvie Maria Thereza Alves and Wilma
Lukatsch - to elaborate a single work or theme. Instead they would share knowledge empathy
and humour and leave open the possibility that their different contributions could entwine. The
writing images and perspectives found in this volume including essays by authors also invited
by the collective to contribute reflect their heterogenous genesis in artistic processes
critical pedagogy and multiple cultural practices. Brought together under a common commitment
to the rejuvenation of inherited languages in the arts and contemporary culture the authors
have sought in their different ways to sustain proposals whose poetics suggest stimulate and
sustain the politics of inhabiting the planet in a radically diverse fashion.
