Know-How: Incurable
Participatory Installation, 2025
Headlands Center for the Arts
Collaboration with Chef Damon Little, LMFT Karen Oberdorfer, and psychomotor therapist Cindi Stephan.
Know-How: Incurable presents an interactive installation using healing remedies gathered from community members outside of institutional contexts. Licensed therapists and alternative-mode healers guide sensory activations using the notion of incurable as a concept and method to escape the institutional paradigm that tries to ‘heal’ and ‘fix’ us on its own terms.
In June and July 2025, the project centered on breath remedies through a series of public interventions at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. Visitors were invited to select remedies intuitively, with Cindi Stephan and Karen Oberdorfer facilitating breathwork and dialogue. Wood also collaborated with Headlands chef, Damon Little on the installation and a public dinner.
Images by Arthur Alvarez
Know-How: McCook
Social Practice, 2025-2026
Supported by McCook Community Kitchen, Nebraska Arts Council, Graff Charitable Foundation, and the Mathews Foundation.
KNOW-HOW: MCCOOK involves a one-year collaboration with area farms and growers, care homes, and residents of McCook, Nebraska. Core collaborators included Joann Falkenburrg, MD, Chef Damon Little, Busy Bees Garden and Greenhouse, Chef Martha Callahan, and area care homes Kinship Pointe and Hillcrest Nursing Home, with contributions from Heritage Senior Center, Buffalo Commons, 4-H, Common Scents Greenhouse & Nursery, and Hoyt Farm.
The project aims to circulate community health knowledge, link local growers, and mobilize community members to share their knowledge about health and care with one another. Beginning with oral history collection from care home residents, the project traces how intuitive health knowledge can be evoked through storytelling and embodied workshops. The project ultimately aims to make small interventions within care homes, enabling residents and care professionals to actively share knowledge with one another.
An installation at ArtBank showcased local remedies from McCook alongside remedies from other parts of the world including South Africa, Sweden, Budapest, and Brooklyn, involved in the artist's ongoing work. Interactive installations were also installed at area care homes.
A shared community meal based on mobility remedies will take place at ArtBank in September 2026 in collaboration with Chef Damon Little.
Mobility-inspired remedy workshops at care homes were led by Martha Callahan, Joann Falkenburg, and Jody Wood.
Images by Jared Muehlenkamp
Presentation for the 43rd UNESCO General Conference, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, organized by the Hungarian National Commission for UNESCO.
Know How: Budapest (Prototype)
How To / Know How, 2-person exhibit with Beata Szabo at Art Quarter Budapest, HU
Know How was first prototyped at Art Quarter Budapest in 2024. This iteration explored remedies related to beauty and fertility and included performances by Imre Vass and Agnes Grelinger in a 2-person exhibition with Beata Szabo.
"I was struck by how each piece challenged traditional ways of knowing, exploring the boundaries between the conscious and unconscious, the known and unknown. The exhibition featured personal remedy recipes on cards within the installation, making the experience feel more connected and actionable – almost like providing a guide for engaging with the art and its themes…As a curator, it was essential for me to see how the exhibition communicated with its audience. The interactivity and exchanges that arose during the viewing showed just how deeply art can influence our perception and understanding. This reaffirmed the importance of creating spaces where such interactions can take place."
- Anna Galeeva (PAS Berlin)