"Sind #Gerüche politisch?"
Unser von #ERC gefördertes Projekt #OLFAC bei der Langen Nacht der Forschung 2026!
Kunstuniversität Linz - Hauptplatz 6, HS A / EG - 21:30 Uhr
langenachtderforschung.at/station/6981
After this break of 3 weeks, we're excited that the #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance will continue!
"Performing Snakes in Modernity and Today" by
Nicole Haitzinger and Christina Gillinger
This Wednesday 5 PM - join us online
(registration via office.olfac@kunstuni-linz.at)
”Wound to Wall Text – Remembering Taiwan’s Late Martial Law Years in #Museum Narratives”
Last week, Freda presented her paper at the European Association of #Taiwan Studies ( #EATS ) Annual #Conference at the University of Portsmouth.
#OLFAC
"How can a vanishing glacier be digitally archived and made perceptible in virtual space?"
We welcome Tina Frank and Alexis Dworsky for this weeks #Lecture of our series "the #Senses in #Performance"
Join us tomorrow at 5 pm in Linz or online! (partly in German)
www.kunstuni-linz.at/en/current/e...
Yesterday, we kicked off our #Lectureseries "The Senses in Performance" with Silke Felber, Freda Fiala & Julia Ostwald. They mapped #performance history & #sensorystudies for audiences in Linz and online, setting the stage for the semester ahead! #OLFAC #olfactory
25% of U.S. college students say they would rather lose their sense of #smell than their phone (thanks for the data, Rachel Herz!). Olfactory cultural studies clearly have work to do. Thanks to the organizers of the "Odorous Object" conference @brown.edu! @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social #ERC #ERCCoG
We're excited for the start of our Lecture series:
THE SENSES IN PERFORMANCE by #OLFAC!
Starting next week, Wednesdays, 5:00–6:30 pm CET.
Join us in Linz or online via Livestream.
Artists & scholars explore the senses as dynamic sites of practice & inquiry!
olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/lecture-seri...
Am 28.2. - 17:05 Uhr, Ö1 einschalten: Diagonal über die Macht des #olfactory – von #Duft als sozialer Distinktion bis zu KI-Parfums, Museumsgerüchen und dem Duftmarken-Affentheater in Social Media. Silke Felber und unser Projekt #OLFAC mit dabei im Radio. Nicht verpassen!📻
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
After her Talk at the Deutsches Haus at #NYU, Silke will travel to Brown University @brown.edu to present her current research at "The Odorous Object: On the Materiality of #Scent. A Conference on #Smell and #Materiality" on February 27th! #OLFAC #olfactory #sensorystudies
Coming up! on February 24, Silke gives a public #lecture at the Deutsches Haus at New York University titled " #Olfactory #Arts in a Warming World”. Following the lecture, she will be in conversation with Zachary Samalin and Brandon Woolf. #OLFAC #NYU
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In November last year, The first #OLFAC #ArtistResidency was dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between #smell, #affect, and bodily #movement. read more about choreographer Paola Bianchi and the musician-composer Stefano Murgia here: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/artists-in-r...
To conclude the #OLFAC#symposium, Ivan Fantini transformed rescued ingredients into an edible #performance "recupero cura condivisione". Thank you very much for this exciting time that will continue to shape the project’s work into 2026 and beyond.
The Final day of the #OLFAC #Symposium made essences emerge. fascinating talks and lecture performances on #olfactory of Lindsey French, Alanna Lynch, Helene Loos and Clara Muller. Sarah Kolb & Freda Fiala in dialogue on fungal volatiles. it opened a dense atmosphere of questions. 🌫️
Astronaut at a lecture desk making and serving tea.
Astronaut at a lecture desk making and serving tea.
Astronaut at a lecture desk making and serving tea.
A couple of photos from my performed lecture for the @olfac.bsky.social symposium in Vienna this past week. Thank you so much we all had a blast!
to conclude the second Day of the #Symposium, our Artists in Residency Paola Bianchi and Stefano Murgia performed their Piece "WERKSTATT Pathosmells". they developed the #olfactory and #choreographic work during their #residency in Linz. more info on our website! olfac.kunstuni-linz.at
Day 2 of the #OLFAC#Symposium was stimulating our #senses with fascinating lectures of Dorothée King and Hsuan L. Hsu. Gwenn-Aël Lynn took us to space with his lectureperformance. Also our OLFAC team members, Silke Felber, Julia Ostwald and Freda Fiala gave us their insights on the #olfactory. -->
Day 1 of the #OLFAC#Symposium: Athmospheres unfold. With Debra Riley Parr joining us online, Marco Tullio Liuzza giving us insights and a lecture performance full of Garlic by Brandon Woolf, finished by a #sensory performance by the collective Mai Ling, it smelled like a wonderful start! #olfactory
We warmly wish you a happy #NewYear2026! we're still looking back fondly on our #OLFAC #Symposium in Vienna last december, where we explored #Sensing across the #Humanities, #Sciences, and #Arts. Stay tuned for our recap, followed by exciting 2026 announcements!
#sensorystudies #olfactory
in two Days, Vienna will have a special #smell!
#OLFAC will host its #interdisciplinary #Symposium at the @ifk-vienna.bsky.social! Join us for Sensing across the Humanities, Sciences and Arts! the full Programm is on our Website: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/olfac-sensin...
This week we welcomed choreographer Paola Bianchi and musician Stefano Murgia, who will be Artists in Residence with the ERC project #OLFAC until December 12, 2025.
At our Get Together, they explained their #choreographic and #olfactory research!
you can already spot the poster of our #OLFAC#Symposium all around Kunstuniversität Linz.
we are so excited for December 3rd-5th, where it'll be all about #sensing across the #humanities #sciences and #Arts!
See you in Vienna at the @ifk-vienna.bsky.social
Diesen Samstag hält Silke einen Vortrag mit dem Titel: »Making Sense: #Klimaungerechtigkeit und ihre #multisensorischen Resonanzräume«
im Zuge der Tagung des #iwk #Wien.
Mehr infos auch auf der #OLFAC Website!
Our Program for the #OLFAC#Symposium is out now!
We warmly welcome all those interested in the multisensory, critical, and imaginative dimensions of #smell to join us in Vienna!
More information on our Website! olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/olfac-sensin...
#sensory#olfactory#sciences#culturalstudies
this week, Freda Fiala will talk about
”Entangled Worlds and the Logistics of Chinese Display in the 1873 Wiener Weltausstellung"
at the Habsburg Central Europe in Global History Summer School in Prague! @ikwoeaw.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
#GlobalHistory #WorldExpositions #OLFAC
COMING UP!
3 – 5 December 2025 | @ifk-vienna.bsky.social
Join the first #Symposium of #OLFAC, bringing together researchers across the #humanities, #sciences, and #arts to explore the #olfactory dimensions of knowledge and experience.
#InterdisciplinaryStudies #SensoryHumanities #SaveTheDate
Alongside conducting research conversations, Freda visited museums, heritage sites, and local workshops where natural #camphor is still chopped, refined, and distilled by hand.
She'll share her insights at the first #OLFAC #Symposium in December - Stay tuned!
"The scent is unforgettable—sharp and crystalline, like a forest splitting open."
Freda Fiala conducted a fieldwork trip to #Taiwan to research the memory politics of the island’s #camphor 樟腦 trade - a historic global industry.
#Extraction #CulturalMemory #MaterialEcologies #OLFAC
Pomander with musk ball, cross, and ring (apple of musk). Maker: Anonymous (Kulmbach?), mid-16th century. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.
What can an object the size of a plum reveal about the smellscapes of early modern Europe—and their gendered and racialized afterlives?
Tomorrow @fau.de, Silke will trace the pomander and discuss our #ERC project #OLFAC within the Sensory Lectures series — join via Zoom 👇 #olfactory #sensoryStudies
Exciting!
