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Showing posts with label [If There Ever Was]. Show all posts
Showing posts with label [If There Ever Was]. Show all posts
20.10.09
5.3.09
review - New York Times Magazine
A review of the exhibition If there ever was is in the New York Times Magazine!
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/02/22/style/t/index.html#pagewanted=3&pageName=22burr
by Chandler Burr
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/02/22/style/t/index.html#pagewanted=3&pageName=22burr
by Chandler Burr
24.10.08
Smelly book
This is the catalogue of the exhibition If there ever was - an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells - .
All the smells exhibited are printed with microencapsulation. It's the book for scratch & sniff.
If There Ever Was: a book of extinct and impossible smells
ISBN: 978-0-9557478-0-9 (rrp £12.00)
distributed by: Cornerhouse, www.cornerhouse.org
published by: Art Editions North
All the smells exhibited are printed with microencapsulation. It's the book for scratch & sniff.
If There Ever Was: a book of extinct and impossible smells
ISBN: 978-0-9557478-0-9 (rrp £12.00)
distributed by: Cornerhouse, www.cornerhouse.org
published by: Art Editions North
26.9.08
some news
8.7.08
body odor collection of Stasi Museum
Last weekend I was in Berlin so I've visited Stasi Museum. The reason is that I've made the fragrance connected to what they exhibit. The fragrance was "the body odor of Susanne whose body odor got preserved by Stasi" made for the exhibition If there ever was.
Body Odour
On December 28, 1989, a slim young woman named Susanne Böden was handing out leaf lets in East Berlin with her little sister. The leaf lets promoted free speech for citizens of the Deutsche Democratic Republic. Shortly after she started handing them out, Susanne was arrested by the
Stasi, or East German secret police. She stood trial at Stasi headquarters in East Berlin and was served with a caution. Before being released, the Stasi gave her a square of fabric to wipe against the back of her neck. This fabric was then kept by the Stasi in a sealed jar with her name on it.
A persons body odour is as distinctive and traceable as a fingerprint. The Stasi tracked the movements of suspected dissenters with trained sniffer dogs. To get the scent of their suspects, the Stasi employed a variety of methods such as breaking into apartments and stealing dirty clothes or sitting suspects in a heated room for questioning. The Stasi would then save a patch of fabric from this chair’s upholstery that had absorbed the suspect's body odour.
The Berlin Wall fell within months of Susanne's trial. During the ensuing celebrations Stasi Headquarters were ransacked. Inside a small room at the headquarters, revellers found hundreds of jars labelled with people's names and stuffed with bits of fabric.
text by Robert Blackson
The front side of Stasi headquarter
The smell jars
Now let's see the other exhibitions.
meeting room
communication room
toilet
There's no clear sign nor entrance to this court, so I had to walk around the block many times.
Stasi headquarter is in the house nr. 1.
All the buildings were somehow related governmental buildings.
Body Odour
On December 28, 1989, a slim young woman named Susanne Böden was handing out leaf lets in East Berlin with her little sister. The leaf lets promoted free speech for citizens of the Deutsche Democratic Republic. Shortly after she started handing them out, Susanne was arrested by the
Stasi, or East German secret police. She stood trial at Stasi headquarters in East Berlin and was served with a caution. Before being released, the Stasi gave her a square of fabric to wipe against the back of her neck. This fabric was then kept by the Stasi in a sealed jar with her name on it.
A persons body odour is as distinctive and traceable as a fingerprint. The Stasi tracked the movements of suspected dissenters with trained sniffer dogs. To get the scent of their suspects, the Stasi employed a variety of methods such as breaking into apartments and stealing dirty clothes or sitting suspects in a heated room for questioning. The Stasi would then save a patch of fabric from this chair’s upholstery that had absorbed the suspect's body odour.
The Berlin Wall fell within months of Susanne's trial. During the ensuing celebrations Stasi Headquarters were ransacked. Inside a small room at the headquarters, revellers found hundreds of jars labelled with people's names and stuffed with bits of fabric.
text by Robert Blackson
The front side of Stasi headquarter
The smell jars
Now let's see the other exhibitions.
meeting room
communication room
toilet
There's no clear sign nor entrance to this court, so I had to walk around the block many times.
Stasi headquarter is in the house nr. 1.
All the buildings were somehow related governmental buildings.
2.5.08
exhibition - if there ever was
For the opening of the exhibition If there ever was
I've just been to Sunderland, U.K.
Everyone was enthusiastic about the exhibition.
BBC review
I'm very happy haw it's installed. I've never seen before such an art exhibition with no artifacts!
I've just been to Sunderland, U.K.
Everyone was enthusiastic about the exhibition.
BBC review
I'm very happy haw it's installed. I've never seen before such an art exhibition with no artifacts!
25.4.08
If there ever was
Hello friends,
I'm participating in a quite unique exhibition that only consists of the smells. It's about extinct and impossible smells.
What I've made for this exhibition was the scent of Stasi Smell Jar - the scent of a citizen of East Germany that was captured his/her body odor without being aware of it. You can view the extraction and composition process on the following page:
If There Ever Was
The catalogue comes out with the smells printed on it. Please read further information below about the exhibition and the catalogue.
Best,
Maki Ueda
If there ever was:
an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells
Opening: Tuesday, 29 April 6-8 pm
Artist talk: Tuesday, 29 April 5-6 pm
Draw What You Smell: Tuesday, 20 May 1-3 pm
Exhibition continues: 30 April – 6 June 2008
Artists include:
Kóan Jeff Baysa, Mark Buxton, Bertrand Duchaufour, Christoph Hornetz, Christophe Laudamiel, Patricia Millns, Steven Pearce, David Pybus - Scents of Time, Geza Schön, Sissel Tolaas, and Maki Ueda
Reg Vardy Gallery is proud to host If There Ever Was: an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells.
In his book of essays entitled, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the physician Lewis Thomas wrote, “The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking itself.” And it is with this appreciation of smell as comparable to thought and interpretation that the exhibition If There Ever Was considers scent as integral to the perception of abstraction and representation.
Scent is the essence of physical presence and lends proof to our surroundings. Contrastingly, the fourteen scents re-created for If There Ever Was are inspired by absence. Like a cabinet of intangible curiosities, their forms are drawn from disparate stories throughout history for which few, if any, objects remain. And although it would be easy to pass the exhibition off as a work of pure fantasy—the product of an over-active perfumer’s imagination—beneath the olfactory theatricality lies a serious scientific basis, says James Wong, a botanist at Botanic Gardens Conservation International, UK.
For the exhibition, Wong helped to re-create the bouquet of four extinct flowering plants by trawling through an extensive list of extinct flowers to identify entries that were closely related to existing scented species. He then combined historical reports of how these extinct plants smelt, with the fragrance of their living relatives, to remix the specific ancient aroma.
From the acrid surface of the sun to the atomic blast at Hiroshima, visitors to the exhibition will be able to experience scents produced by the most renowned fragrance designers in the world.
A book of smells accompanies the exhibition, ISBN: 978-0-9557478-0-9. This hardback publication is on sale at Reg Vardy Gallery (rrp £12.00) and is distributed by Cornerhouse, www.cornerhouse.org. If There Ever Was: a book of extinct and impossible smells is published by Art Editions North.
This exhibition is sponsored by the gas distribution company Northern Gas Networks, which runs north east England’s gas emergency service and uses scent to help people detect gas leaks.
The following fragrance houses have generously donated to this exhibition: International Flavors & Fragrances, Symrise, and Givaudan.
Reg Vardy Gallery is open: Tuesday 10 am to 8 pm, Wednesday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm and Saturday by appointment. For more information please call 0191 515 2128, email robert.blackson@sunderland.ac.uk
from the site:
Reg Vardy Gallery
I'm participating in a quite unique exhibition that only consists of the smells. It's about extinct and impossible smells.
What I've made for this exhibition was the scent of Stasi Smell Jar - the scent of a citizen of East Germany that was captured his/her body odor without being aware of it. You can view the extraction and composition process on the following page:
If There Ever Was
The catalogue comes out with the smells printed on it. Please read further information below about the exhibition and the catalogue.
Best,
Maki Ueda
If there ever was:
an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells
Opening: Tuesday, 29 April 6-8 pm
Artist talk: Tuesday, 29 April 5-6 pm
Draw What You Smell: Tuesday, 20 May 1-3 pm
Exhibition continues: 30 April – 6 June 2008
Artists include:
Kóan Jeff Baysa, Mark Buxton, Bertrand Duchaufour, Christoph Hornetz, Christophe Laudamiel, Patricia Millns, Steven Pearce, David Pybus - Scents of Time, Geza Schön, Sissel Tolaas, and Maki Ueda
Reg Vardy Gallery is proud to host If There Ever Was: an exhibition of extinct and impossible smells.
In his book of essays entitled, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the physician Lewis Thomas wrote, “The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking itself.” And it is with this appreciation of smell as comparable to thought and interpretation that the exhibition If There Ever Was considers scent as integral to the perception of abstraction and representation.
Scent is the essence of physical presence and lends proof to our surroundings. Contrastingly, the fourteen scents re-created for If There Ever Was are inspired by absence. Like a cabinet of intangible curiosities, their forms are drawn from disparate stories throughout history for which few, if any, objects remain. And although it would be easy to pass the exhibition off as a work of pure fantasy—the product of an over-active perfumer’s imagination—beneath the olfactory theatricality lies a serious scientific basis, says James Wong, a botanist at Botanic Gardens Conservation International, UK.
For the exhibition, Wong helped to re-create the bouquet of four extinct flowering plants by trawling through an extensive list of extinct flowers to identify entries that were closely related to existing scented species. He then combined historical reports of how these extinct plants smelt, with the fragrance of their living relatives, to remix the specific ancient aroma.
From the acrid surface of the sun to the atomic blast at Hiroshima, visitors to the exhibition will be able to experience scents produced by the most renowned fragrance designers in the world.
A book of smells accompanies the exhibition, ISBN: 978-0-9557478-0-9. This hardback publication is on sale at Reg Vardy Gallery (rrp £12.00) and is distributed by Cornerhouse, www.cornerhouse.org. If There Ever Was: a book of extinct and impossible smells is published by Art Editions North.
This exhibition is sponsored by the gas distribution company Northern Gas Networks, which runs north east England’s gas emergency service and uses scent to help people detect gas leaks.
The following fragrance houses have generously donated to this exhibition: International Flavors & Fragrances, Symrise, and Givaudan.
Reg Vardy Gallery is open: Tuesday 10 am to 8 pm, Wednesday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm and Saturday by appointment. For more information please call 0191 515 2128, email robert.blackson@sunderland.ac.uk
from the site:
Reg Vardy Gallery
15.4.08
once more
Hearing that the microencapsulation of the fragrance oil for the exhibition "If There Ever Was" was not successful, I have tried to make the stronger extract with the higher temperature (70 - 80 degrees) this time.
Perhaps I'd be the only one in this exhibition who is making the extract from the scratch...
Perhaps I'd be the only one in this exhibition who is making the extract from the scratch...
5.3.08
The Stasi Smell Jar
For the exhibition If There Ever Was taking place at Reg Vardy Gallery in Sunderland, U.K., I've been composing the scent of a woman whose scent has been captured in The Stasi Smell Jar because she was a possible spy suspected by the Eastern German secret police. This exhibition consists only of the scents.
When I think about the human odor, there are two approaches. One is the realistic expressionism, and the other is the abstract expressionism, comparable to those of paintings.
The East German authority Stasi captured and stored thousands of their citizens' scents in glass jars. I consider this as the realistic expressionism, because they wanted to capture the original scent as precise as possible.
Good example of the abstract expressionism could be the perfume
"David Beckham Instinct - For Him". The fragrance does not smell at all of Beckham's sweat or whatever that could be, but of bergamot and spices just like the consumer fragrances. By wearing this, one feels like the superstar Beckham in his imagination.
My ambition for the exhibition "If There Ever Was" is to create something in between them: real, but fiction.
The most of the components are self-made.
The composed scent will be put in the scent cartridge, and it'll function as an atomizer during the exhibition. Also the scent will be printed "scratch & sniff" as a catalogue of the exhibition.
When I think about the human odor, there are two approaches. One is the realistic expressionism, and the other is the abstract expressionism, comparable to those of paintings.
The East German authority Stasi captured and stored thousands of their citizens' scents in glass jars. I consider this as the realistic expressionism, because they wanted to capture the original scent as precise as possible.
Good example of the abstract expressionism could be the perfume
"David Beckham Instinct - For Him". The fragrance does not smell at all of Beckham's sweat or whatever that could be, but of bergamot and spices just like the consumer fragrances. By wearing this, one feels like the superstar Beckham in his imagination.
My ambition for the exhibition "If There Ever Was" is to create something in between them: real, but fiction.
The most of the components are self-made.
The composed scent will be put in the scent cartridge, and it'll function as an atomizer during the exhibition. Also the scent will be printed "scratch & sniff" as a catalogue of the exhibition.
1.3.08
the scent of Stasi smell jar
For the scents exhibition "If there ever was" taking place at Reg Vardy Gallery in Sunderland, U.K., I've developed the scent of Stasi smell jar.
The eastern Germany state secret police Stasi was collecting the scents of the citizens for ttracing the scent of the spy.
I'm developing my own 'palette' from the scratch.
Extracting from the smelly materials.
Making the test composition.
Like at the perfumery school in Grasse, I've developed the formula using the computer.
At the 4th try the scent was getting pretty close to what I've wanted to achieve.
My reference was the book written by the perfumer Takashi Suzuki (Takasago International), but mainly I've trusted my intuition, inspiration, and my experiences. My strong belief was in the fact "You smell of what you eat".
This part of the fragrance was made for the exhibition catalogue. The scents will be printed into the form "scratch & sniff". From now on I'm going to develop the scent to be exhibited.
The eastern Germany state secret police Stasi was collecting the scents of the citizens for ttracing the scent of the spy.
I'm developing my own 'palette' from the scratch.
Extracting from the smelly materials.
Making the test composition.
Like at the perfumery school in Grasse, I've developed the formula using the computer.
At the 4th try the scent was getting pretty close to what I've wanted to achieve.
My reference was the book written by the perfumer Takashi Suzuki (Takasago International), but mainly I've trusted my intuition, inspiration, and my experiences. My strong belief was in the fact "You smell of what you eat".
This part of the fragrance was made for the exhibition catalogue. The scents will be printed into the form "scratch & sniff". From now on I'm going to develop the scent to be exhibited.
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