Nourishing Knowledge

May 18, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Maya Tounta and Otobong Nkanga, Soaup: Architectures of Scent
Otobong Nkanga brews a new soap recipe, photo: Angelos Giotopoulos

May 18, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Maya Tounta and Otobong Nkanga, Soaup: Architectures of Scent
The Nourishing Knowledge team serves Saltibarsciai, photo: Angelos Giotopoulos

May 18, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Maya Tounta and Otobong Nkanga, Soaup: Architectures of Scent
Guests make Digesting Notes as the discussion continues, photo: Angelos Giotopoulos

May 18, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Maya Tounta and Otobong Nkanga, Soaup: Architectures of Scent
Saltibarsciai (cold soup), bread, Kalamata olive oil and clarified butter, photo: Angelos Giotopoulos

June 5, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Nathan Pohio and Mata Aho Collective, Hāngi
Preparing the Hāngi at Sandershaus, photo: aneducation

June 5, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Nathan Pohio and Mata Aho Collective, Hāngi
Tracing lines between Christchurch and Kassel, photo: aneducation

June 5, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Nathan Pohio and Mata Aho Collective, Hāngi
Pumpkin, garlic and potatoes simmer on hot coals after the fire, photo: Fred Dott

June 5, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Nathan Pohio and Mata Aho Collective, Hāngi
Nathan Pohio, members of Mata Aho, and the Nourishing Knowledge team dig up the food, photo: Fred Dott

June 5, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Nathan Pohio and Mata Aho Collective, Hāngi
Nourishing Knowledge invitations and way-finding by Carmen José, photo: Fred Dott

June 5, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Nathan Pohio and Mata Aho Collective, Hāngi
Sandershaus residents, colleagues and friends enjoy the slow-cooked meal, photo: Fred Dott

June 16, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Zafos Xagoraris and Katerina Stefanidaki, Delivering Bread
A temporary narrowcast station at Peppermint, playing sound fragments from an archive of recordings selected by Zafos Xagoraris of Greek texts and songs made in the Görlitz camp during World War I, photo: Mathias Völzke

June 16, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Zafos Xagoraris and Katerina Stefanidaki, Delivering Bread
Katerina Stefanidaki shares the recipe for her special bread with members of the Nourishing Knowledge team and guests, photo: Mathias Völzke

June 16, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Zafos Xagoraris and Katerina Stefanidaki, Delivering Bread
The aroma of fresh bread brings visitors into Peppermint as part of the ongoing baking process before meal moves on to Narrowcast House, photo: Mathias Völzke

June 16, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge with Zafos Xagoraris and Katerina Stefanidaki, Delivering Bread
Designer for Nourishing Knowledge way-finding, Carmen José welcomes guests to the next station of the meal, Narrowcast House, photo: Mathias Völzke

July 15, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge/Under the Mango Tree, Deipnosophy Edition
Preparing materials for the fish grill with the Nourishing Knowledge team at Athens Central Market, photo: aneducation

July 15, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge/Under the Mango Tree, Deipnosophy Edition
Yellow Breadfellow ceramics containing elements sit on each table beside herbs to increase eloquence, photo: aneducation

July 15, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge/Under the Mango Tree, Deipnosophy Edition
Guests gather in the palisade between the Athens Conservatory and Aristotle’s Lyceum, photo: aneducation

July 15, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge/Under the Mango Tree, Deipnosophy Edition
Grill masters of the Nourishing Knowledge team tend to the bream, photo: aneducation

July 18, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge/Under the Mango Tree, Emfang Edition
Salads and other picnic dishes prepared by Lose Fäden, served under the trees in Nordstadt Park, photo: Mathias Völzke

July 18, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge/Under the Mango Tree, Emfang Edition
Neslihan Kabak and Aynur Köseler, members of the sewing group Lose Fäden share their recipes with neighbors around the Nordstadt Park and participants of Under the Mango Tree, photo: Mathias Völzke

July 18, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge/Under the Mango Tree, Emfang Edition
Nourishing Knowledge takes place in Nordstadt Park, inviting neighbors and Under the Mango Tree guests to share recipes and stories under the trees, photo: Mathias Völzke

July 18, 2017, Nourishing Knowledge/Under the Mango Tree, Emfang Edition
Members of Lose Fäden share their recipes using homegrown vine leaves with hungry guests, photo: aneducation

May–September 2017

Methods of cooking and eating together often come to us in collectively authored, oral, and gestural forms, handed down by word of mouth and via migration. This bodily anthology or “digest” is a way for documenta 14 aneducation to consider the high stakes of living together and encounter; an unlikely stew of ingredients, people, and pasts gives forth a “nourishing knowledge.” During the documenta 14 exhibition in Athens and Kassel, aneducation cooks a series of meals with a number of guest artists and neighbors, with a support team ranging from sous chefs to food truck drivers.

Nourishing Knowledge Contributors: Ella Froemmel, Ayşe Güleç, Wanda Heimbs, Karl Leonard Heinemann, Carmen José, Ann-Kathrin Mogge, Otobong Nkanga, Emeka Ogboh, Nathan Pohio, Beat Sandkühler, Ahlam Shibli, Katerina Stefanidaki, Maya Tounta, Ida Westermann, Zafos Xagoraris, and others

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