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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At University of Arts Linz, the new term always starts with our #THEORY #SLAM! the whole Department of #Culturalstudies and #mediasciences comes together to present this semesters Lectures and courses in short one-minute-pitches! We wish you all a successful start to the new academic year!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A true highlight at Ars Electronica Festival: meeting Maki Ueda with her Project "Olfacto-Politics: The Air as a Medium." Thank you for the great conversation about the intersection of #sensorystudies, #Olfactory#Art and #Scent in Media Arts — leaving with tons of fresh ideas!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

with a great talk about "A loving ear – toward a poetic ecology of feeling", Brandon LaBelle held the final Lecture of our #lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance". Thank you to everyone who joined online and in Linz. you can find more impressions of all lectures here: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Thinking democratic interactions as multisensorial and embodied fosters more- than-human articulations and representations that have been excluded from logos-centric and anthropocentric democratic discourse." Thank you Bettina Wuttig for your interesting Talk in our #OLFAC #lectureseries!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

On her trip back from the conference, Julia participated in a #perfume workshop at Mediamatic’s amazing Aroma Lab in Amsterdam. www.mediamatic.net/en/page/3797...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

OLFAC on the Road in June! Julia Ostwald presented her paper "Olfactory Atmospheres of Evil in Romantic Ballet" at the #conference "Performing Evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000" at Leuven University. www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgesch... #OLFAC

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Thank you so much @erikawicky.bsky.social for letting us sense the Atmosphere of a painters' studio in Nineteenth-Century France! we really enjoyed your talk in our #lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thank you, @willtullett.bsky.social, for taking us through the history of stink bombs in your lecture " #Olfactory Violence and the Freedom to Speak: #Stink Bombs in Interwar Europe"! you can find more impressions and the full program of our #lectureseries on our website: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thank you Ulrike Hanstein for "Lingering with "Bass" (2024, Steve McQueen)" with us in your talk about how this durational #audiovisual performance could link embodied #sensory perceptions with social constructions of race! stay tuned for more of our #Lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance"

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thank you Myia Yoshida for your sensitive, grounding #lecture "Mimi o Sumasu – the Very Act of Listening." Through images, sound and poetry, she explored this notion as attunement to ecological sensitivity, where time becomes both the subject and the method of inquiry for unsayble. #OLFAC

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thank you to #bankleer aka Karin Kasböck & Christoph Maria Leitner for last week's lecture of our #OLFAC #lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"! in "Sinn für Unlösbares" they talked about how the #climatecrisis is also a crisis of #perception. stay tuned for tomorrow's lecture!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#Publication #News! 📖 Julia Ostwald published the article "Choreographing Magnetism. The Performance of Knowledge in the Ethereal Field of Forces" in the edited volume "The Theatrics of Persuasion in the Long Nineteenth Century" at @leuvenup.bsky.social #openaccess: doi.org/10.2307/jj.3... #OLFAC

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"Tasting skin - on chillies and chills" Thank you Karin Harrasser for your fascinating perspective on Diego #Velázquez and how the #skin can be seen as a profoundly political organ. Join our #OLFAC #Lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance" Wednesdays at 5pm.

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🐍 sssss 🐍 Thank you Nicole Haitzinger ( #DanceStudies, University of Salzburg) and Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar ( #Tanzquartier Vienna #TQW) for this very insightful talk about "Performing #Snakes ind #Modernity and Today" Tune in for the #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

”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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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 as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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.

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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. 🌫️

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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. -->

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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

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

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Julia Ostwald is a postdoctoral researcher for #ERC #OLFAC. In her research, she explores entanglements of aesthetics, sensual perceptions, and (body-)politics, as well as stagings of #breath, air, and #smell in #dance and movement practices in history. #olfactory#sensorystudies

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Freda Fiala is a cultural researcher whose work explores the entangled relations between Central Europe and East Asia. As a postdoctoral researcher in #ERC #OLFAC, her research focuses on how trans-cultural and trans-modern circuits shape identity and #sensory knowledges. #olfactory #smellstudies

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Silke Felber is the principal investigator of our #ERC -Project #OLFAC researching the intervening performativity of Smells. Her academic work transcends disciplinary boundaries, integrating Theatre, Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies. read more about her work on our Website! #olfactory #sensory

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

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