Olfactory Art: [How to Confuse Your Senses?]

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20.10.09

How to Confuse Your Senses? [5] exhibition

2 Hours exhibition at the school cafeteria. Closing party after that.

In the context of fine arts, photography, fashion, sculpture, etc, that require us only to look at, our works require us to touch, smell, and to taste. Therefore our area was quite popular. The audience never stopped.

Students were proud to present their own works. This is how it should be, so I have to say my experimentation was quite successful. The faculty members were also enthusiastic. I'm looking forward to the next chance.

To all the students: thank you very much for your dedication and contribution!

How to Confuse Your Senses? [4]

how it looks: Sushi
how it tastes: stamppot! (Dutch cuisine made with mashed potato, vegetable, and bacon/ham)

Sae used the fact that Dutch people do not know precisely how it looks like, and the fact that she's Japanese. The Dutch people expect them as "sushi" without any doubt. Once they eat them, they taste "stamppot".

She made the sushi with the ingredients that's are used for making stamppot.
rice - mashed pootato
seaweed - red cabbage
surimi(crab) - camamber colored with red color

how it looks: green tea
how it tastes: mint tea

Her idea, presentation, the level of experimentation, preciseness, and her attitude was perfect. I wouldn't say this just because I knew her. This projectweek was meant for the 2nd and the 3rd grade students, so she faked her grade in order to take this class, because she was in the 4th grade. Such dedication was giving the other students good influences too.

(12) presentation by Augusta

how it looks: book
how it smells: each page is perfumed with different smell (in order to make a story out of it)

She did not follow the intention of this assignment, so she just made whatever she wanted to make, but a lot of people were impressed about her idea.

How to Confuse Your Senses? [3]

how it looks: perfume bottles with colored labels
how it smells: different smells

Good idea, but the work didn't get a depth, in my opinion. It was pity that it just became a smelling test .

(8) presentation by Stefan

how it looks: freshly squeezed apple juice
how it tastes: juice of tuna can

Good idea, but the (visual) presentation should be a little more refined.

(9) presentation by Marisa

how it looks: a beautiful rose in a bottle
how it smells: fish

Very simple (positively) and strong work, because she used the gap between a nice smell and dirty smell. But why is the fish smell dirty? According to Japanese it's a smell that triggers appetite.

(10) presentation by Emmy-Koos

We got invited to the corridor >>> smells like cinnamon >>> there is an oven >>> we expect something.

The letter inside the oven betrays our expectation.

She has diffused the smell of apple pie, instead of baking an apple pie.

how it smells: apple pie
how it looks: looks like an apple pie is baked in the oven though...

In this case, the sense of smell gives us an expectation but the sense of sight betrays it. It's a little too complicated to understand her work, but it's interesting how she has used the senses in reverse.

How to Confuse Your Senses? [2]

How to Confuse Your Senses?
Projectweek 12/10/2009 - 16/10/2009
Willem de Kooning Art Academy, Rotterdam, NL

It's the final presentation of a week-long workshop that I've been giving this week.

The theme of the assignment:
How to confuse the sense of smell and/or taste, by means of the visual sense?

(5) presentation by Dorith

[experimentation]
experimentation on how the sense of hearing influences the sense of smell

Let a test person smell the same fragrance while she/he is listening to two totally different types of music (heavy metal + classic)
* the test person does not know that she/he is smelling the same smell
* in order to shut the sense of sight she/he is wearing the blindfold

Does the impression of the smell differs if you're listening to the different type of music?