Unpotato – Edible manifesto making workshop
The potato is usually seen as a trivial and ubiquitous source of food; it’s just there. We don’t think too much of it, which is surprising given that there are more than 4500 varieties of potatoes known worldwide and that almost every food culture in the world uses potatoes. This ubiquity obscures how the lives of humans and potatoes have been entangled throughout history. In the kitchen of the panic factory, we’ll follow the potato on its journey through continents, soil, food, metabolism and starch by collectively preparing an edible manifesto. During this workshop we’ll write, draw, and stamp on edible paper made from potato starch. Using pigments from sweet potatoes, juices, and potato stamps, we’ll visualise how to transform populist purée politics into a pluralistic polyphonic potato tornado. Finally, we’ll throw the manifesto and the potato stamps into a soup that will be served at the end of the workshop and eaten by all participants, thus digesting the original zine.
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?
