Social Practice, 2025-2026
Supported by McCook Community Kitchen, Nebraska Arts Council, Graff Charitable Foundation, and the Mathews Foundation.

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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, Budapest, Sweden, and Brooklyn involved in the artist's ongoing work. Interactive installations featuring mobility infusions were also installed at area care homes. 

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A shared community meal based on mobility remedies will take place at ArtBank in September 2026 in collaboration with Chef Damon Little.​

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Mobility-inspired remedy workshops at care homes were led by Martha Callahan, Joann Falkenburg, and Jody Wood.