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This spring, the Sunflower Soup collective brings PPP<\/em> to life\u2014a Political Party for Potatoes<\/em> and other beings<\/em>. PPP<\/em> transforms W139 into a site of collective practice: an open workspace where you are welcome to make and share! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared to conventional political parties, where a party programme is written first and policies follow, the PPP<\/em> takes the opposite approach. It is founded on the belief that thinking and doing are strongly connected\u2014and that knowledge about how we live together in society often emerges through making and collaborative experimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the potato plays a leading role within the party, the P\u2019s are open to many interpretations: PPP<\/em> could stand for Protorealist Pan-Political Project<\/em>, Practical Party of Provocation<\/em>, or Pansexual Potato Phantasy<\/em>. This way the PPP<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you enter the space, you first step into the PPP party office<\/em>, designed and built by Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats<\/strong>. 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<\/em>\u2019s party platform can be collectively shaped. In the back space, a Panic Factory<\/em> by bende van de glittervingers<\/strong> emerges. Here, seeds of resistance, planted long ago in hidden corners, begin to sprout and take over. The Panic Factory<\/em> quietly screams no!<\/em> 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 <\/em>occupies its premises. On the walls there are murals painted by Sunflower Soup and students depicting scenes of Pan Potato Politics<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through a comprehensive workshop programme, the PPP<\/em> 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<\/em>. As well as being playful and speculative, PPP<\/em> 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Learn more about the participating artists and exhibition in the handout<\/a> of a Political Party for Potatoes<\/em> and other beings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunflower Soup <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats<\/strong> is a free-to-use, collectively-run (squatted) workshop space and community garden in Rotterdam operated by volunteers. Visitors come to fix their bikes with tools and spare parts that have been donated while neighbors can freely harvest herbs from the garden. Centered around learning together, reciprocal generosity, and anti-judgement, the space creates a welcoming environment where folks can safely relate to each other on the border of what they know and what they are trying to figure out. DHZ consists of Deniz G\u00fclyurt, M.B. McGregor, Christian Lesmes, Florian Henschel, Sapozhnikov Mikhail, Linda Zeb Hang, Tomi Hilsee and Saina Salarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bende van de glittervingers<\/strong> unleashes playful and absurdist scenes somewhere between art, activism and ecology. Where capitalist systems increasingly force people into individualism, glittervingers is committed to compassionate connection, with joy and fighting spirit. Building lasting relationships with the beings we share this planet with, creating and spreading stories that stick like glitters\u22c6 and make everyone shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Visual identity by June Jungeun Yang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos by Pieter Kers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colophon<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initiated by Sunflower Soup with Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats, bende van de glittervingers, Kasih Graphic, 4Siblings, Jody Aikman, mul-thee-fuhngkshuh- nl, Periphery Center, Rosalie Bak and Margherita Soldati, Urgent Ecologies, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition has been developed by the artistic team of W139, with Tomas Adolfs leading the process, together with Maya Asad, Andr\u00e9 Avel\u00e3s, Dana Claasen, Levi van Gelder, Dil Ghale, Geer van der Klugt, Monica Liu, Macarena Maga\u00f1a, Margarita Osipian, Claudio Ritfeld, and Annette Wolfsberger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visual identity by June Jungeun Yang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W139 is structurally supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Mondriaan Fund. PPP is additionally supported by the Cultural Participation Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A special thank you to Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the students of BEAR and SAWA Collective.<\/p>\n\n\n

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