This spring, the Sunflower Soup collective brings PPP to life—a Political Party for Potatoes and other beings. PPP transforms W139 into a site of collective practice: an open workspace where you are welcome to make and share! 

Compared to conventional political parties, where a party programme is written first and policies follow, the PPP takes the opposite approach. It is founded on the belief that thinking and doing are strongly connected—and that knowledge about how we live together in society often emerges through making and collaborative experimentation.

While the potato plays a leading role within the party, the P’s are open to many interpretations: PPP could stand for Protorealist Pan-Political Project, Practical Party of Provocation, or Pansexual Potato Phantasy. This way the PPP functions as a pluriform platform for overlooked or obscured perspectives and aims to be a refuge for those who challenge the current political status quo.

As you enter the space, you first step into the PPP party office, designed and built by Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats. In the process of building this space, the collective simultaneously explored their own structure and collaborative working methods. The office serves as a space for gatherings and assemblies where the PPP’s party platform can be collectively shaped. In the back space, a Panic Factory by bende van de glittervingers emerges. Here, seeds of resistance, planted long ago in hidden corners, begin to sprout and take over. The Panic Factory quietly screams no! to the relentless drive for more, bigger, faster, better, greedier, as it transforms into a breeding ground for resistance during the period that the PPP occupies its premises. On the walls there are murals painted by Sunflower Soup and students depicting scenes of Pan Potato Politics.

Through a comprehensive workshop programme, the PPP will gradually expand over the course of two months. A multitude of collectives, makers, and visitors will collaboratively explore the politics of the potato and contribute to the PPP. As well as being playful and speculative, PPP will become a real physical place of political imagination and connection, proposing alternatives to the ways contemporary politics are shaped. More information on the workshop programme on our website soon!

Take part in a P(r)otato Propaganda Production workshop with Sunflower Soup, practice mobile protest printmaking with Kasih Graphic, perform a potato sowing ritual with 4Siblings, engage in a Spud-itorial debate with Jody Aikman, contribute to the PPPotato Paper in the editorial room of PotatoPress with mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl, participate in a workshop on feminist printing and poetry with Periphery Center, explore the politics of perceiving with Rosalie Bak and Margherita Soldati, or join a slow conversation about sustainable art practices with Urgent Ecologies.

Sunflower Soup was born out of a shared activist engagement and a need to explore what art can mean beyond the confines of the individual. The collective is driven by a number of questions: Can a shared way of working contribute to a less detached experience of art? How do people relate to each other and to the more- than- human world? How do we reconcile the importance of activism with a poetic visual language that allows for humour, paradox and ambiguity.

PPP is supported by Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie – Deelregeling Open Call: Cultuur voor Klimaat.

Visual identity by June Jungeun Yang.