In Turkish

Çokayaklılar (Şafak Çatalbaş, Didem Erk, Aslı Narin, Elif Süsler), Ece Eldek, Berin Ertürk, Özlem Işıl, İlhan Koçulu, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Pınar Üzeltüzenci

The public event POTATO forms around issues of agriculture, stock farming, food, soil and seed policies. We trace the correlations between industrial agriculture, corporate seeds and disease, discuss the burden that industrialisation and specialisation lays upon life and the planet, and discuss topics including the commodification of food, the perception of wilderness, estranged labour, financial difficulties and migration. Brought forth are holistic views, traditional agriculture, local seeds, adaptation, gene pools along with the importance of farmers, local wisdom, generations living together, food politics and the social movements emerging from these politics. In the expression of POTATO, we try to explore materiality, the urge to control time, flow, mythology, street whispers, memory, repetition and expression, collective consciousness, and the current moment.