In an era of endless digital pings, I created Hotel Adipose as a parafictional destination emerging from two decades of artist-led communal experiments across Canada and Europe. Drawing on the concept of parafiction—an artistic mode that operates between fact and fiction—the project operates as a conceptual hotel for art practice and experimentation. It channels the unscripted energy of pre-smartphone gatherings into digital space where imagination precedes algorithms. Hotel Adipose fundamentally builds on, The Drawing Society (2009–2011), co-founded with Canadian/Swedish artist Laura Piasta in Berlin as a series of in-person art actions. These sessions convened participants in open, spontaneous exchanges, foregrounding creative resets, chance encounters, and connection above formal outcomes. A Fluxus echo in the early-internet days; a spirit animating Hotel Adipose’s borderless corridors. Frankfurt’s Städelschule (2012–2015) strengthened this communal impulse through its self-directed ethos, strong peer-to-peer community, and encouragement of collaborative, off-site art exploration.The act of travelling art, travelling with art, travelling with ideas through many different portals and possibilities—these are the elevators and staircases of Hotel Adipose. The Guest (2018–2020), a talk-series co-created in Toronto, with Canadian artist Erica Stocking, traced artists' transient passages through places, spaces, and projects; exchanging stories and experiences in passing. Drawn from a constellation of influences, Hotel Adipose arrives as parafictional architecture—a hotel that subtly subverts "reality" by exploring collective and individual necessities. It enacts the creative process as formative action, wherein connection, experimentation, and self-preservation coalesce into method and manifesto.

Welcome to Hotel Adipose,

xx Jessie Holmes, Hotel Concierge