Multi-species Storytelling of our Be_Comings

 

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Drawing on the urgency of Serbia’s student protests, What Can a Potato Foretell Us About Ourselves? reimagines the “potato state,” a pejorative echo of “banana republics,” as a space of empowerment and possibility. Conceived as a communal, performative experience, the work gathers participants at a shared table where savoring, sewing, stitching, and storytelling become acts of intimacy and inquiry.

 

Together they ask:

What can a potato teach us about endurance, collaboration, and togetherness?

What ideas can we plant today to compost knowledge and nurture practices for surviving planetary crisis?

Through dialogue, textual fragments, body movements, and savory bites the piece transforms polyphony into a living fabric, opening a rhizomatic space of meaning-making.

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The work was produced during the Balkan Project Mentorship and presented at Potato Empowering Trajectories exhibition at P.E.T.Project in Athens.