Tag: Potato Culture

  • From Parmentier to Latvia: Potato for Gourmets on RETV

    A 2024 RETV news segment documented Kartupelis Gardēdim (Potato for Gourmets), a Michelin-level potato dinner conceived by Jeffrey Allen Price and realized with chef Edgars Rubenis in Cēsis, Latvia.

    Master Chef Edgars Rubenis on RETV, 2024

    There is a really great news story (in Latvian) by RETV about the “Potato for Gourmet” dinner that took place at Michelin Star restaurant H.E. Vanadziņš Ziemeļu restorāns on March 1, 2024. They interviewed the brilliant chef Edgars Rubenis and showed some excellent footage of the meal preparations and some of his finished Potato masterpieces. Includes a lot of images of the Potato plant decorations/accents provided by Ilze Dimante and an interview with Cesis inside director Sigita Kletniece, who enabled the Potato dinner event as liaison and moderator. They even interviewed Potato Artist, Džefrijs Alens Praiss (Jeffrey Allen Price), whose idea for the dinner was the seed that grew into this historic feast — a dining experience that even Parmentier would have been impressed and delighted by.

    Potato Artist, Džefrijs Alens Praiss (Jeffrey Allen Price) on RETV, 2024

    Related Projects:

    → Kartupelis Gardēdim (Potato for Gourmets) (2024)

    → The Potato Ball (2016)

    → Open Feast: Potato Potluck (2012)

  • We Say Potato At Islip Art Museum

    A brand-new version of our film in-progress THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO, is currently on view at the Islip Art Museum in the exhibition “Collaboration.” There is an Artist Reception, August 3 from 1-3pm. Thank you to my collaborator Juan Lopez Espantaleon for all the great work on this project so far, and for the installation photo. Also, a huge gratitude to the 100+ participants that have given their beautiful faces and unique languages and accents to this project. I hope you some of you can attend the reception Saturday.

    THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO film and poster on view at the Islip Art Museum, 2019. Photo courtesy Jeffrey Allen Price.

    The Art of Collaboration curated by Holly Gordon
    ISLIP ART MUSEUM
    at Brookwood Hall, 50 Irish Lane, East Islip, NY 11730
    On view thru August 24, 2019.
    Museum hours:
    Tuesday through Friday 10am – 4pm
    Saturday 12pm – 4pm
    Closed Sunday and Monday

    Related Projects:

    → THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO (2016–Present)

    Related Timeline Entry:

    → THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO 2016 – TPI Timeline Entry

  • POTATOISM on the “Dream a Little Dream” Podcast

    I was featured on Episode 45 of the Dream a Little Dream podcast, hosted by Jessie Taylor. Titled Through The Eyes Of The Potato, the hour-long conversation explored potato art, POTATOISM, the Think Potato Institute, collecting, exhibitions, and the cultural life of the potato.

    Special thanks to Jessie Taylor for the thoughtful conversation and for helping spread the potato message.

    You can listen to the episode here: https://player.fm/series/dream-a-little-dream?v=1781570281

    Update: The podcast is no longer actively maintained and the original audio is currently unavailable. Fortunately, this screenshot survives as documentation of the episode’s existence and release.

  • The Exhibition Ends, the Archive Begins

    Today I dismantled my JamaicaFlux installations after a rewarding three-month run. I am deeply grateful to curator Heng-Gil Han for the opportunity to participate and for producing such an outstanding catalog documenting the exhibition. Shown here are the eight pages dedicated to my projects, along with the catalog cover and expanded flaps.

    Congratulations to all of the artists who participated. It was a pleasure getting to know your work and to see the remarkable range of projects represented in the publication.

    Special thanks to Juan López Espantaleón and Dom Sindayiganza, whose photographs greatly enhanced the presentation of my work in the catalog. I would also like to thank co-curator Kalia Brooks and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning for their support, generosity, and commitment to making Jamaica Flux such a meaningful experience.

    While the installations have now been dismantled, the ideas, relationships, documentation, and projects that emerged from the residency continue to grow.

  • 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:

    → Official Facebook Page for THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO

  • We Always Learn Something New About Potatoes

    We always learn something new about potatoes when we film.

    Filming Anna Prikazchikova at Suffolk County Community College. Photo courtesy Camila De La Pava.

    During a recording session for THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO at Suffolk County Community College, participants shared potato folk remedies and traditions from around the world. We heard about using the steam from boiling potatoes to help relieve colds (Russia), potato slices for skincare and facial treatments (Jordan), and even potatoes reportedly used as diaphragms for birth control (Colombia).

    It was a fun and productive day of filming with participants from Russia, Pakistan, Colombia, Jordan, Turkey, Germany, and the United States. Every recording session added new stories, new languages, and new perspectives to the growing archive.

    Thanks to everyone who participated and to Camila De La Pava for the photograph.

    Related Projects:

    → THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO (2016–Present)

    Related Timeline Entry:

    → THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO 2016 – TPI Timeline Entry

    Project Archive:

    → Official Facebook Page for THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO

  • Seeking New Ways to Say Potato

    I am excited to announce that we will be filming again for THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO during select times in conjunction with the “POTASIA: Potatoism in the East” exhibition at The Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University (thru June 15, 2018). First day of filming is March 30 (Good Friday) from 11am-3pm. Please schedule an appointment if you would like to participate. We are giving priority to languages and dialects we have not recorded yet, but anyone with a sense of humor or a love of potatoes will be considered. We are still looking to interview people that speak German, Dutch, Italian, Arabic, Thai, and many Asian and African languages.

    If you would like to participate please contact info@thinkpotatoinstitute.org.

    Related Projects:

    → THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO (2016–Present)

    Related Timeline Entry:

    → THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO 2016 – TPI Timeline Entry

    Project Archive:

    → Official Facebook Page for THIS IS HOW I SAY POTATO