Jordan Baseman
PotatoHead
2 January 2026 - 3 January 2027
PotatoHead is a live artwork by Jordan Baseman, taking place every Saturday morning from 3 January 2026 until 2 January 2027. The activity will happen between 11am and 12pm on a small patch of wasteland directly outside of Walthamstow Central Underground Station, Selborne Road (Main Entrance).
PotatoHead takes its title from a greeting given by a viewer of one of the first performances, prompted by the potato sacks worn and used by the artist. One potato sack is worn over the head forming a mask, inspired by archival images from the Polish Institute of Sciences and Art and the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, and the other is used to collect litter. Also wearing a pair of self-made coveralls bearing the legend 'When My Eyes Are Weeds' (the first line of the Dorothy Parker poem 'August'), this long-term artwork is a slow lament, a distorted form of Community Service played out on Saturday mornings.
PotatoHead is made as a direct result of funding from Arts Council England DYCP Round 21, with support from Rame Projects Cornwall, The Royal College of Art and Matt’s Gallery, London.
NB: There will be no PotatoHead on Saturday 18 July 2026.