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.