HOTEL ADIPOSE: About
Hotel Adipose is an interdisciplinary art platform that exists between digital and physical space. It supports people interested in maintaining creative and artistic lives, connecting with others through personal experience, the creative process, and art-based inquiry. Hotel Adipose provides a framework for sustaining and developing artistic practices with the support of recurring live online sessions—drawing, writing, reading, discussion, and meditation. This is a place to participate in workshops, readings, group discussions and in-person art actions, experiment with methods and materials, and to find a steady foundation for art and community. Open to adults aged 18 and above across all abilities; no prior artistic training required, though an interest in art in some form is recommended. Led by artist Jessie Holmes—founder and concierge of Hotel Adipose—with additional facilitators to follow. Modeled loosely on hotels occupied by artists of the twentieth century—places where people shared corridors, resources, and artistic pursuits—Hotel Adipose functions as a contemporary version for creative experimentation, and collective self-preservation.
To become a member at Hotel Adipose, please choose a membership suite, under "suites" on the main menu. If you have any questions, reach out anytime via the contact tab in the main menu.
HOTEL ADIPOSE: About
Hotel Adipose is an interdisciplinary art platform that exists between digital and physical space. It supports people interested in maintaining creative and artistic lives, connecting with others through personal experience, the creative process, and art-based inquiry.
Hotel Adipose provides a framework for sustaining and developing artistic practices with the support of recurring live online sessions—drawing, writing, reading, discussion, and meditation. This is a place to participate in workshops, readings, group discussions and in-person art actions, experiment with methods and materials, and to find a steady foundation for art and community.
Open to adults aged 18 and above across all abilities; no prior artistic training required, though an interest in art in some form is recommended. Led by artist Jessie Holmes—founder and concierge of Hotel Adipose—with additional facilitators to follow.
Modeled loosely on hotels occupied by artists of the twentieth century—places where people shared corridors, resources, and artistic pursuits—Hotel Adipose functions as a contemporary version for creative experimentation, and collective self-preservation.
To become a member at Hotel Adipose, please choose a membership suite, under "suites" on the main menu. If you have any questions, reach out anytime via the contact tab in the main menu.
HISTORY
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
Bio
Jessie Holmes (b. 1982, CA) holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver), studied at Städelschule (Frankfurt am Main), and earned an MFA from OCADU (Toronto). Her interdisciplinary practice spans performance, poetry, and painting to explore character development and parafictional narratives. Through projects like Hotel Adipose, she produces transitional scenographic sites that explore re-imaginings of late modernity—at the intersections of technology, work, relationships, and identity.
HOTEL ADIPOSE GUIDELINES & CODE OF CONDUCT
Everyone is welcome here (18+). This space welcomes LGBTQIA+ people, BIPOC communities, disabled and neurodivergent pals, and anyone whose identities or experiences have been marginalized.
Hotel Adipose is a platform that supports people interested in sustaining creative and artistic lives, that centres diversity, equity, and inclusion by welcoming artists and allies of all races, genders, sexual orientation, abilities, body sizes, backgrounds, and treating lived experience as expertise. Value is shared, not measured by productivity, credentials, or expertise. Difference intrigues imagination and resilience—a path to learning and expansiveness. The Hotel Adipose Guidelines & Code of Conduct ensures safety, accountability, and respectful exchange for all.
Disclaimer: This is a peer, art-based support space. This is not therapy or a substitute for therapy, medical care, or emergency services. If someone appears in crisis, encourage them to seek professional help immediately. Facilitators may share crisis resources but cannot provide emergency intervention. You must be 18 years or older to become a member of Hotel Adipos
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