OLFAC - Olfactormativity

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An ERC Consolidator Grant Project researching the intervening performativity of smell across time, space, and disciplines. PI: Prof. Dr. Silke Felber, University of Arts Linz (Austria) https://olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

Pomander with musk ball, cross, and ring (apple of musk).
Maker: Anonymous (Kulmbach?), mid-16th century. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Silke Felber: "“Since I can remember, I have feverishly sought out situations and actors capable of making my senses reel. I long for moments when “those precious, experienced eyes” (to borrow Nabokov’s phrase) can no longer be trusted—when the intricate dance of my body’s tacit knowledge falters under the sudden intrusion of reason. I thirst for the fleeting illusion of movement conjured by a passing train, as though I myself were in motion; for objects whose misjudged weight sends my torso lurching upward in eerie haste. But what happens when the nose, too, is drawn into these moments of faltering? And might such stumblings unsettle the ingrained habits that our bodies, through years of socialization, have so deeply internalized?“ OLFAC