PRACTICE / ARTISTIC RESEARCH
Alejandro Chellet’s artistic research is grounded in long-term, practice-based inquiry at the intersection of performance, food systems, land-based research, and radical hospitality. His research examines how food operates simultaneously as material, method, and social choreography, shaping relations between bodies, labor, care, and ecological systems across rural, peri-urban, and institutional environments.
Rather than producing autonomous artworks, his research develops extended platforms in which performance, hosting, agriculture, and collective eating function as interrelated methodologies. Hospitality is approached as a political infrastructure that organizes power relations, modes of access, and ethical responsibility, while land is understood as a contested commons shaped by migration, extraction, regeneration, and tourism.
A queer and ecosexual framework informs his research, foregrounding embodied, relational, and more-than-human perspectives that challenge human-centered and extractive logics. Methodologically, the work integrates performance and choreographic experimentation, food-based experimentation, hosting as an artistic score, and situated fieldwork. Documentation operates as an epistemic practice through which theoretical insights emerge from sustained, embodied engagement.
Rather than producing autonomous artworks, his research develops extended platforms in which performance, hosting, agriculture, and collective eating function as interrelated methodologies. Hospitality is approached as a political infrastructure that organizes power relations, modes of access, and ethical responsibility, while land is understood as a contested commons shaped by migration, extraction, regeneration, and tourism.
A queer and ecosexual framework informs his research, foregrounding embodied, relational, and more-than-human perspectives that challenge human-centered and extractive logics. Methodologically, the work integrates performance and choreographic experimentation, food-based experimentation, hosting as an artistic score, and situated fieldwork. Documentation operates as an epistemic practice through which theoretical insights emerge from sustained, embodied engagement.
