This research project explores Radical Hospitality as an embodied practice at the intersection of food art, ecosexuality, and community care. Grounded in environmental activism and artistic inquiry, it examines how acts of sharing food and space can disrupt hierarchical power structures and foster deeper connections between individuals and their environments.
Through a multidisciplinary approach encompassing video installation, performance, and participatory workshops, the project investigates the cultural, political, and sensual dimensions of hospitality. Drawing from backgrounds in art curation, permaculture, agroecology, and regenerative agriculture, it emphasizes the cyclical relationship between humans, food systems, and the land. By engaging with local traditions and practices encountered in Upstate New York, Mexico, Estonia, and Norway, the research highlights the ways food narratives reflect broader societal values and collective histories.
Central to the work is the creation of an Ecosexual Bio-mess Food Post Porn artwork where dumpster-dived food is transformed into a visceral, interactive installation, performance and film. By critiquing food waste and consumer culture, Chellet invites audiences to confront their relationship with discarded abundance. By combining these materials into a performative ecosystem, the project reimagines waste as a site of renewal, care, and artistic intervention.
Hunting and fishing also feature prominently as performative practices, reframing the primal act of sourcing food as rituals of ecological awareness and storytelling. These acts interrogate the ethics of consumption while reconnecting with ancestral methods of sustenance.
The project further delves into the politics of inclusion within artist residencies and rural spaces. Through collaborations with other artists, it creates immersive experiences where the boundaries between host and guest blur, encouraging audiences to reconsider their roles as consumers and contributors in shared ecosystems.
At its core, this work reframes hospitality as a radical act of resistance, regeneration, and care, where food becomes a medium for connection, storytelling, and transformation.
Alejandro Chellet is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist, curator, and cultural practitioner working across Europe and the Americas. Holding an MFA in Performance from the Norwegian Theatre Academy, their practice explores coexistence, urban-rural migration, and environmental issues in post-pandemic society. Through participatory art, they challenge food distribution in capitalism while promoting organic farming and communal cooking.
Their work spans social practice, video, installations, urban interventions, and performance, incorporating permaculture, artivism, somatic movement, and shamanism. They have exhibited and performed in festivals, museums, and galleries worldwide, fostering global dialogue.
In Mexico City, they co-founded Cualti Mexico in 2009, an urban agriculture collective engaged in regenerative farming in Xochimilco. They also helped establish Mercado Alternativo de Tlalpan, one of the city's first farm-to-table markets. In 2015, they founded Casa Viva Gallery, an artist-run space collaborating with institutions and alternative venues like Huerto Roma Verde, where they curate artistic residencies.
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