Knead
"Knead
Kristian P. Hansen
Tora Lopez
John Oles
William Murphy
Alisoun Meehan
Nikki Luv-Varney
Flour Milling Merry Go Round, Dough Mixing Seesaw, Living Shiitake Mushroom Chandeliers, Saltlick Pyramid, Minimalist Vegetable Row Sculptures, Golden Chicken Coop / Palace to House KKProjects’ New French Cuckoo Maran Chickens.
Tai Chi performance by Shaolin Do
Gospel Blessing of the Bread by Pastor Tyrone Jefferson
Knead Schedule:
Friday- mix sourdough
Saturday morning- knead the dough
Saturday night- push-down, quiet little dance party
Sunday- baking + feast, big opening
All welcome, bring champagne!
We satisfy need through the methods and efforts of baking bread on the simplest terms - human, collaborative, playful.
Knead is a celebration of...
The life within a generations-old sourdough yeast as it grows and ferments under our hands.
The life within a new farm as vegetables, herbs, eggs, spring forth to transform a derelict environment.
The life within a community as the efforts of many hands combine to realize a sensual and simple meal.
Knead is the regaining of a lost pleasure: the clarity and sensuality of transferring bodily energy directly into the creation of food. A pace that treats the process of making with appreciation and awareness. Simplicity of form is observed in food and installations, grounding the experience of eating and art making in beauty*. Honest and delightful nourishment realized through physical activity deliver us from the busy mind into a rediscovery of our humanity. The resurgent luxuries of craft and community bring fulfillment and renew our love for the making of food and art.
*With one exception. One artist decided to disobey all curatorial parameters to create a dark and controversial piece.
You've seen a baker rolling dough.
He kneads it gently at first, then more roughly.
He pounds it on the board.
It groans softly under his palms.
Now he spreads it out and rolls it flat.
Then he bunches it,
And rolls it all the way out again, thin.
Now he adds water and mixes it well.
Now with salt, and a little more salt.
Now he shapes it delicately to its final shape
and slides it into the oven, which is already hot.
You remember breadmaking!
This is how your desire
Tangles with a desired one.
-Rumi
Thank You to Our Kind Supporters:
New Orleans Food + Farm Network
Sugarland Garden Soil + Materials
LSU Agriculture Center
Parkway Partners
Common Ground
MPress Printing
Sue Zemanick
Admonsters
Hal Brown
Cargill Salt
Tia + Lucky
Colin O'Neill
Michael Jones
Emile Dumesnil
Sidney Torres III
TungstenMonkey
Pastor Tyrone Jefferson
Great River Organic Milling
Mississippi Natural Products
Lucy Brunette + Gregory Holt
And our amazing staff and interns"