The10th Mercosul Biennial opened in Porto Alegre, Brazil with a major exhibition on smell: Olfactory: Smell in Art. Continue reading Olfactory Politics in Curating
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“Olfactory: Smell in Art†& “Smell as a Criterion: Toward an Olfactory Politics in Curatingâ€
On October 23, the 10th Mercosul Biennial opened in Porto Alegre, Brazil with a major exhibition on smell titled Olfactory: Smell in Art. With 54 artists from Latin America, it’s the first large-scale Latin American exhibition on the topic. The exhibition is on view until December 6th and is curated by Gaudêncio Fidelis.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Biennial is also releasing a book titled Smell as a Criterion: Towards a Politics of Olfactory Curating. Published in Portuguese and English, it is the first book of the genre that covers olfaction as a curatorial strategy.
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Smell as a Criterion: Toward an Olfactory Politics in Curating is the first book of the genre that covers olfaction as a curatorial strategy. It is an in-depth, thought-provoking delve in the intricacies of an olfactory curating, proposed by the author as an alternative approach through other senses, opposed to the hegemony of sight in the construction of the Western canon. One of the most dedicated curators and art historians to the approach of canonical structures and their pervasive presence in art exhibitions, Gaudêncio Fidelis proposes an alternative reflection on the establishment of new curatorial models that are not based exclusively on sight, with its exclusionary and discriminatory perspective.
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Olfactory: Smell in Art
This exhibition introduces aspects of modern and contemporary production in Latin America which challenge the established prerogatives of canonicity, specially those built around the Western Canon, by privileging anti-ocular manifestations through the developments of a number of issues related to olfaction. This exhibition analyzes classificatory hierarchies of smell in the universe of art as a possibility for new interpretative strategies.
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Osmobox
Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. Osmobox drawings were exhibited at Galerie Charlot in Paris (2014). Osmoboxes are visually identical but completely distinct in their olfactory identity. Every scent in the Osmobox series is unique and constitutes the core of the artwork. Continue reading Osmobox
OLFACTORY ART: OSMOBOXES
An Osmobox is a work of olfactory art that responds to the presence of the viewer by opening itself and gently releasing an aroma. All Osmoboxes are visually identical but completely distinct in their olfactory identity. This means that the viewer is unable to differentiate them through vision alone and is, therefore, stimulated to explore each artwork primarily through the sense of smell.
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100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume
The Book of Scented Things collects poems reflecting the experience of selected vials of perfume. Continue reading 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume
The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume
What if 100 contemporary American poets were sent individually selected vials of perfume, fragrances chosen to reflect the authors’ voices, aesthetics, or writerly obsessions? What if each poet wrote something new in response? THE BOOK OF SCENTED THINGS collects the results of this strange, aromatic experiment: poems of longing and of childhood memory, poems of place and philosophy and politics, poems about the challenge of writing poems about perfume. This is an anthology whose words will linger on your pulse points long after even the base notes have faded.
Olfactory Exhibition Series at Projektraum Enter in Kunstmuseum ThunÂ
What does scent have to do with art? At first glance, nothing, it seems. But scent has long been a part of art on many levels, and is increasingly so nowadays. From the materials and processes used to produce art to the subject matters of the work itself, scent—whether present physically or only in memory or the imagination—is part of the reality of art. In cooperation with the Scent Culture Institute, Kunstmuseum Thun is presenting a year-long series of four exhibitions at Projektraum Enter examining the sense of smell through the museum’s collection. Through the series, Projektraum Enter will act as an experimental place for olfactory exploration, from the what and how art is made, and how we perceive it, to the artistic evocations of smell, be they in still lives, city scenes, landscapes, abstractions, or the real world. Continue reading Olfactory Exhibition Series at Projektraum Enter in Kunstmuseum ThunÂ
OSMODRAMA : Storytelling with Scents – The Festival 2016 by Wolfgang Georgsdorf @ Kickstarter
Introducing a new art: composing+performing time-based smell sequences via SMELLER 2.0, the instrument. This festival starts in Berlin.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/250084958/osmodrama-storytelling-with-scents-the-festival-20
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