Scent
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Scent as Protagonist
Installation 25: Scent as Protagonist Some words recently culled from the book “Smell of Risk” by Huan Hsu. Chosen to remind us how scent really can be a powerful player in society, race and politics on a global scale. Atmo-orientalism – “A discourse that organizes political and cultural power by tethering olfactory perception to racial…
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The Scent Seller
(image: Pietro Longhi, The Scent Seller, ca. 1741. Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice) When it comes to words and perfume, generally the words are devised around strictly hedonic terms, to “like” and to “not like”, and a rainbow of positive, market-driven descriptors. Is it possible to reconsider and add new dimensions to the seductive act of artifically…
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The Nose and Our Evolutionary Impulse: Sex
(image courtesy RedNoseDay.org) While Covid has been a worldwide disruptor, it has also slowed things down in a big way, which is a blessing. All of the scent cards have been thrown in the air and have fallen, scattered everywhere – so we are living in an exciting moment of destruction and regeneration when it…
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