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Join Kasih Graphic for a second Public Propaganda Printmaking Workshop and explore experimental ways to produce and distribute printed matter and propaganda.

The workshop is centered around the Poster Signage—a sculptural sign made from a sheet of carved linoleum flooring, attached to a signage pole. This movable relief print will be installed around the W139 area, transforming everyday signage into sites of visual communication. Participants will make their prints directly off of the linoleum sign post, echoing the act of pasting posters on public walls and tagging street signs.

Together, we will create and distribute images and messages that emerge from group discussions with Kasih Graphic in connection to the PPP. You’ll also have the chance to personalize your prints with additional drawings or color.

Participants are welcome to bring their own materials, anything wearable, or sized A4 to A3 is perfect.

Kasih Graphic is a collaborative printmaking practice founded by Angga Cipta (Jakarta) and Chad Cordeiro (Johannesburg) . It emerged from their shared interests and overlapping practices in printmaking, arts pedagogy, and archiving.

Angga Cipta (Indonesia) is a visual artist, printmaker and educator whose work is focused on socio-political histories, migration, urban planning, and the dynamics of city life in the global south. His multi-media approach includes print, drawing, installation, publication, and video.

Chad Cordeiro (South Africa) is an artist, printmaker and educator who works across the mediums of collage, print, sound, and installation. His current research is centred on the DIY production of printmaking tools and materials, as well as open-source approaches to the archiving and dissemination of print-based media, history, and technical processes.

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

Join Kasih Graphic for a Public Printmaking Workshop and explore experimental ways to produce and distribute printed matter.

For this occasion, Kasih Graphic will bring their Print Bike—a mobile, modular printmaking studio equipped for silkscreen, relief, and intaglio printing. The Print Bike supports informal workshops, education programs, protest poster production, artist editions, and collaborative projects. It’s inspired by the Medu Art Ensemble’s “silkscreen workshop in a suitcase” and the Starling coffee bikes of Indonesia.

Together, we will create and distribute images and messages that emerge from group discussions with Kasih Graphic in connection to the PPP, and have the chance to personalize your prints with additional drawings or color.

Participants are welcome to bring their own materials, anything wearable or sized A4 to A3 is perfect.

Kasih Graphic is a collaborative printmaking practice founded by Angga Cipta (Jakarta) and Chad Cordeiro (Johannesburg) . It emerged from their shared interests and overlapping practices in printmaking, arts pedagogy, and archiving.

Angga Cipta (Indonesia) is a visual artist, printmaker and educator whose work is focused on socio-political histories, migration, urban planning, and the dynamics of city life in the global south. His multi-media approach includes print, drawing, installation, publication, and video.

Chad Cordeiro (South Africa) is an artist, printmaker and educator who works across the mediums of collage, print, sound, and installation. His current research is centred on the DIY production of printmaking tools and materials, as well as open-source approaches to the archiving and dissemination of print-based media, history, and technical processes.

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

The workshop Politics of Perceiving explores how perception shapes the deep and layered relationship between our bodies and the soil. We’ll use the sensitive body as our main way of engaging with the world around us. The workshop unfolds in three parts: perceiving, relating, and storytelling.

We begin by tuning into the subtle sensations of the perceptive and responsive body, through guided exercises rooted in the principles of Haptonomy—an approach that emphasizes touch and emotional connection.

From there, we extend our attention outward, connecting with other beings—such as potatoes and soil—through touch, movement, and presence. Together, we’ll explore how our bodies and minds can help us sense different kinds of relationships, using homemade bokashi ink to map and express these interactions.

We’ll end with a shared moment around the compost pit—a space for reflection and exchange, where we peel and compost stories of interdependence and ecological care. The ongoing research project Soil to Self to Soil, along with the practice of cultivating potatoes, will serve as a soft guide in this final part.

Traces of our time together—compost, bokashi ink, drawings, and maps—will remain in the exhibition space, open for interaction by both visitors and future workshop participants.

Rosalie Bak and Margherita Soldati explore how artistic, empirical, and embodied research can be combined to deepen the understanding and integration of knowledge about ecosystem health. They also investigate how this approach can help make research outcomes more accessible and relatable across different disciplines.

As an artist and haptonomist, Rosalie Bak works at the intersection of affective research, embodiment, and spatial practices, with a strong focus on ecology, art, and somatic care. Margherita Soldati is an artist whose work explores themes such as diagnosis, immunity, and the relationship between food and the senses, often in collaboration with scientists and communities.

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

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?

Do all potatoes have the same interests or needs? What would potatoes say in a debate? Are all potatoes created equal and privy to the same rights? This workshop explores the existence, language, and connected system of potatoes through playful embodiment and poetic political imagination. 

In the first part of the workshop, participants will be provided with a potato for whom they will form a political party. Each person will receive an information card about their potato and formulate a proposal for a new law through the eyes of their potato. The facilitator, i.e. Head Potato, will help guide each party to come up with a name, slogan, and main debate points. 

In the second half of the workshop, all of the potato parties will come together and debate whether the proposed laws should be passed in Parliament or not. All members will vote on passing or rejecting the bill. 

The debate session will be recorded and presented during the remaining days of the PPP workshop programme.

The Potato Parliament: A Spud-itorial Debate with Jody Aikman
Saturday 31 May, 12:00 – 15:30
Wednesday 18 June, 12:00 – 15:30

Jody Aikman is a poet and performer exploring the intersection where artist, audience and message meet. She researches the silences in language by questing meaning, ambiguity, and implication through her writing. Her performances are created to blur the line between audience and artist, investigating the relationship between herself, the other and the world. 

On 29 May, PotatoPress opens the doors of its editorial room to all curious, wandering, and ambitious potato journalists to contribute to the PPPotato newspaper! Come peel a potato to reveal its hidden layers, dig deep in the earth for its roots, expose its versatility, become the paparazzi of potatoes, bring out the latest (fake) news, or contribute to the entertainment section. 

In the editorial room, we’ll explore the politics of the potato together. Using different perspectives, personal knowledge, field research, and (reliable) sources, we’ll reflect on the role of the potato in our society, the global economy, our common thinking, different ideologies and strong opinions. What does the potato have to tell us? How can the potato nurture our ideas about the politics of being together and interacting with each other? We’ll also dive deep into our primal Dutch frying culture and the snackbar as a meeting place. What is the role of the snackbar in today’s times? 

The newspaper will be published and distributed in the neighbourhood of P139.

Mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl is a collective that creates dynamic installations with a crossover between workshops, public space installations, and happenings through interactions with others. Their projects share a common focus on engaging with the environment and fostering exchanges with a diverse audience, generating new imaginaries around the contexts the projects take place in.

Make Playful P(r)otato Propaganda with Sunflower Soup! During this workshop, participants will engage in experimental ways of imagining politics, while creating new PPP slogans, pamphlets and monumental banners together. Using PPP’s very own Pulp-font stamps, and an amazing collection of fabrics, we will produce PPP propaganda that is poetic, colourful, and polyphonic. Let’s Peel the Power! And practise the politics of poetic potato promotion.

The workshop is open to all ages (grown up and baby potatoes) and no prior skills are required to take part. The banners produced in the first workshop will become part of the PPP and will be displayed in the space. 

P(r)otato Propaganda Production workshop with Sunflower Soup

Sunday May 25, 15:00 – 18:00
Wednesday June 4, 14:00-17:00
Saturday June 14, 14:00 – 17:00

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?

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite-page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.

13:00 hrs at W139 or 14:00 hrs at the 4Siblings field.

Polyculture, in opposition to monoculture, is a system of growing plants that are beneficial to each other and create a regenerative effect on the soil. We think of polyculture as a symbol of political practices of living together in community. In this workshop we will collectively learn about polyculture and the life cycle of plants—from seed to sowing, to growth, and harvest. On 13 May we will sow potatoes and think about other plants and their existence from seed to harvest, throughout the seasons. In order to facilitate this thought process on the lifecycle of plants we will engage in an embodied personification exercise with all the elements that contribute to the life of our small garden. The workshop will be outdoors, so please wear warm clothes, closed shoes and bring a bottle of water. No experience with farming or performance is needed.

Please note: if you join the workshop at 13:00 at W139, you will be participating in an approximately 30 minutes bike procession to the 4Siblings field. Please bring your bike and a bag or carrier to transport material.

A follow up workshop will be dedicated to harvesting the results. 

Date and time are still to be confirmed (depending on when the potatoes are ready to harvest.)

4Siblings is an artist collective and a community garden focusing on creating ecofeminist and queer connections to food and land. They focus on land-based art and research, collectively creating gardens as artistic platforms. These outdoor spaces allow artists and makers to develop their practice from the perspective of community and ecology. 

Reserve your spot on the Eventbrite page of the event.
Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.