| Urban Olfactics 1A/1B Exhibition Essay (excerpt) Joel Mu |
The pervasiveness of smell in everyday life is often overlooked. From our natural environment to our urban cities the multitude of odours that waft through the air and stimulate our olfactory senses – our noses, tastebuds and cranial nerve - result in a sensual experience, where pleasant and unpleasant smells are constantly discerned In cities where our relationship to smell is especially thwarted by highly sophisticated methods of washing, filtering, incinerating of odorous discharge and the ever increasing use of personal deodorants and air ‘purifiers’, |
Sexual attractiveness, supported by pleasure pounding pheromones, is the prima facie result of our odorant-receptor interactions. Why do we have this compulsion The work of Nadia Wagner can be characterised as a mixed library of design foundations, formal experiments with skilled perfumers, a broad interest in the urban environment and how the cityscape is conceptualised beyond the dialectic of word and image in contemporary art... |
