The Institute Chronicle serves as an ongoing record of exhibitions, collections, research, discoveries, publications, lectures, and activities associated with the Think Potato Institute. Entries range from contemporary projects and institutional milestones to archival discoveries, collection highlights, historical documentation, field observations, and examples of POTATOPHENA encountered in everyday life. Together they document more than three decades of potato-related art, research, collecting, and public engagement.
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100 Participants and Counting
THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO at-home filming progress. We are nearly complete with our film’s first flagship segments SAYing, SINGing, SCEAMing Potato in different languages and accents from around the world.
Today Juan and I filmed each other and our families for THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO and surpassed the 100 participants benchmark.
Jeffrey Allen Price and Juan López Espantaleón filming one another during a 2019 recording session after surpassing 100 participants in the project.
Related Projects:
→ THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO (2016–Present)
Related Timeline Entry:
→ THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO 2016 – TPI Timeline Entry
Film Coverage:
2025 — The Spud Has Its Day in the Sun — The East Hampton Star
2024 — MainPotRe during Vidzeme Innovation Week 2024— Interreg Baltic Sea Region
2019 — The Art of Collaboration — The Islip Bulletin [PDF]
Project Archive:
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The Potato Revolution Exhibition-Mash-Up
I produced this short video following the opening of The Potato Revolution: Cult of Potato 2011 at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center) in Brooklyn, New York. The video combines footage from the exhibition with scenes from The Potato Revolution Café, an installation that features over a thousand objects from my growing potato collection.
The soundtrack features the song “Viva La Potato Revolution,” performed by my band POTATOTRON which seemed like the perfect accompaniment to the project. I like this video because it captures some of the energy and enthusiasm surrounding the exhibition in a way that photographs alone cannot.
Special thanks to Nimajus Bagdonavicius for his help filming and editing during the opening events.
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