I am Kevin Bellò, an art curator, researcher, and educator working at the crossroads of ecology, food practices, and storytelling. I work as an independent practitioner, as well as within the transnational art collective Sympoietic Society and the food and art network The Gramounce. My curatorial work aims to develop interlocal practices and networks in which caring ecologies, divination workshops, and situated co-creations reveal present and possible ecosystems and foodscapes. In parallel, my research and educational practice explore how food emerged as an effective material for engaging with and reimagining geopolitical histories linking colonialism, land management, and gender politics.
My most recent projects dive into lively political ecology by exploring site-specific storytelling in collaboration with communities of humans and more-than-humans. Such investigations particularly reflect on environmental grief and ecosystemic loss, focusing on how collective mourning opens to embodied practices, interspecies empathy, and magical thinking. Therefore, grounding my work in co-creative, hands-on processes such as cooking, foraging, sculpting, writing, and storytelling shapes a curatorial practice in which knowledge-sharing is linked to situated emotional encounters. In doing so, my research inoculates institutional networks with radical amateurism, grassroots self-education methodologies, and poetical gestures.