Showing posts with label [OLFACTOSCAPE]. Show all posts
Showing posts with label [OLFACTOSCAPE]. Show all posts

11.4.12

OLFACTOSCAPE - making of


12-03-2012



13-03-2012



Supported by: Steve Pearce, Omega Ingredients 
Special thanks to Hideaki Okamoto,  inframince


OLFACTOSCAPE - photos


date: March 15th, 2012

event name: Smell This!

venue: V2_ Institute for Unstable Media

website: 
about Smell_This!

about OLFACTOSCAPE









article on Trouw, 10 March 2012





a review about OLFACTOSCAPE by Caro Verbeek

Cited from olfactoryart.net
http://www.olfactoryart.net/index.php/olfactory-news/14-olfactory-news/109

A multi-sensorial perception of space - ‘Olfactoscape’ by Maki Ueda


‘Because we have two nostrils and because we can move, we are able to perceive smells in stereo and navigate through a space by inhaling’


Eyes closed, hands on the circularly arranged cloth hanging from the ceiling, concentrated on the olfactory clues sprayed on the textile in front of me, I slowly make my way through Maki Ueda’s ‘Olfactoscape’. ‘Chanel no. 5 deconstructed’ it said in the announcement. Suddenly an obtrusive smells hits me like a brick wall. I knew this was coming, but still it’s incredibly overwhelming; pure animalistic and deeply penetrating musk! Without hesitating I take one step back. It’s still there. Recovering from the first shock I am turning slightly to the left as it disappears. Nothing now. I move closer to the smooth flexible wall counter-clockwise. This brings me back to the more pleasant less pungent aroma I perceived one minute earlier. This one is less volatile, has less volume so to speak. By shifting my weight from one foot to another I try to find the exact border between the two. And there it is! Sharp like a knife. Apparently movement facilitates a spatial perception of odour to such a level that it becomes a floating and clearly defined shape.

‘Because we have two nostrils and because we can move, we are able to perceive smells in stereo and navigate through a space by inhaling’, Maki Ueda tells the audience before inviting them to visit ‘Olfactoscape’ during the V2 ‘Smell this’ event on the 15th of March. ‘Remember to keep your eyes closed and to move slowly’, she adds with a serious expression on her face. ‘Olfacto’ referring to the sense of smell and ‘scape’ to a landscape, this circular installation containing the most important components of the famous Chanel no. 5, enables visitors to experience space by one of our most underrated senses. ‘Why did you choose this type of construction’ one curious bystander remarks. Ueda: ‘When you stand in the middle, you perceive the harmony, that’s why this installation is organized as a circle, although a labybrinth or a rectangular narrow space would have been interesting as well’.
‘This was the first modern perfume’, she continues. ‘All perfumers educated now have to be able to reproduce it’. Chanel no. 5 is a so-called signature perfume. Its origins are surrounded by myths. One of the stories is that of a perfume mixer that somehow overdosed on aldehydes and ‘boom’: the birth of the first modern perfume, which - supposedly by mistake - has an extremely characteristic aroma. When isolated, these aldehydes are somewhat unpleasant and ‘fatty’ as Maki describes them.

Most of us are familiar with the fact that odours that are perceived as foul or hideous when secluded, turn out to pleasant and (wildly) attractive when covered with floral or fruity top notes. Musk and indole (to be found in human feces and associated with prostitutes at that time) are suddenly acceptable by upper class women when combined with vanilla or citrus. Chanel no. 5 is one of these layered almost schizophrenic perfumes. By deconstructing and grouping the most important ingredients, the artist presents to us a three-dimensional version of the most famous perfumes of all times. She allows us to smell the less agreeable odorants separately, exposing the bare naked femme fatale (base notes) underneath the civilized dressed up lady at the surface (top and middle notes). This makes it a bit like watching a scary movie. You know something is about to happen, but you can’t predict when. But your body knows before your mind.

Beside this more conceptual layer, there is a poetic and purely sensual aspect to the work which one can exclusively become aware of while experiencing this aromatic landscape. It forces you to combine several of your senses as if they were one: touch, smell and proprioception or kinaesthesia. A kinaesthetic experience is usually conceived by sight and even sound in combination with movement. This less well known sense tells us what our position is in a defined space. The unique circumstances provided by Olfactoscape, hand us the possibility to navigate through space with our hands, nose and body. The knowledge of the presence of certain ingredients, such as indole, aldehydes and musk, offers an extra dimension. Once you perceive them, being aware of the fact that your body almost described 360 degrees by this point, they function as a grand finale.

After exchanging the darkness and consolation of the installation for ‘neutral’ air and sharp electric light I am in a complete different state of mind. The mindful and multi-sensorial journey through Chanel no. 5 definitely left its mark on me.


Caro Verbeek

15.3.12

live streaming of Test_Lab (V2_) tomorrow


Test_Lab (V2_) tomorrow will be live-streamed on this page.


From:

20:00 Central European Time 
March 15th 2012.

Smell cannot be streamed though! :-)

Article on Trouw about Test_Lab@ V2_ on 15.03.2012 (tomorrow)

8.3.12

Test_Lab: Smell This! @V2, March 15th 2012


Test_Lab: Smell This!


Witness the decomposition of Chanel No. 5, sniff out a partner, taste with your nostrils, and more treats for the nose. With Sissel Tolaas, Susana Soares and Maki Ueda. Opening: Caro Verbeek.


Test_Lab: Smell This!

March 15th
20:00 to 23:00
location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
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Demonstrations: Sissel Tolaas (NO/DE) | Susana Soares (PT) |Maki Ueda (JP/NL) | Opening: Caro Verbeek (NL) | Performance: Jorg Hempenius (AJ Scentman, NL) | DJ: BEATNOLOGIC (NL)
Would you rather give up your sense of smell or your smartphone? A recent worldwide study conducted among youths aged 16 - 22 found that more than half of them would chose technology over their own sense of smell. What good is a nose anyway when all your friends, entertainment and sources of information are online? This edition of Test_Lab will reveal that your sense of smell might actually be the best reason to stay connected to the physical world. While the communication industry is fixated on visual and aural communication, it is the work of pioneering olfactory artists that points out the significance and potential of communication through smell.
In this edition of V2_’s Test_Lab, Maki Ueda performs a live experiment in decomposing the legendary fragrance Chanel No. 5, Susana Soares shows you how to sniff out a partner, and one of the world’s greatest scent experts, Sissel Tolaas, lets you taste with your nostrils. Art-historian Caro Verbeek kicks off the evening with a talk on smelly art, accompanied by a genuine AJ (Aroma Jockey).
Smell all of this at Test_Lab!
This event will be streamed live in this page. March 15, 20:00 CET


OLFACTOSCAPE


OLFACTOSCAPE - deconstructing Chanel No. 5 - (2012) is a work by Maki Ueda.


OLFACTO (= olfactory) SCAPE (= scenery)


OLFACTOSCAPE is an invisible panorama painting. It's a 3m diameter space created with a curtain. The walls are "painted" with smells.


Perfume is a composition of multiple ingredients, often more than a hundred. Making a perfume is like making a piece of music: creating a harmony with multiple tones. In this version of the OLFACTOSCAPE, independent components (aromatic ingredients) of Chanel No. 5 are separately placed (sprayed) at the different locations. If you stand in the middle point of the space, you would smell the "harmony."  If you walk along the curtain, you would smell the "individual tones."
The intention is thus, to deconstruct the Chanel No. 5, and to reconstruct it again. 


Enter the space, close your eyes, walk and sniff like a dog. Some scents come closer to you, while others fade away.  When do you smell the "harmony" and when do you smell the "individual tones?" Do the scents navigate you instead of you navigating yourself? Is there any scent that attracts you, or that makes you want to approach? 


This project is supported by Omega Ingredients.


OLFACTOSCAPE

22.10.11

OLFACTOSCAPE @ Lucena (Cordoba), Spain - photos











It was nicely opened on the 21st of October, 2011. I arrived in the middle of opening. I've heard that the person who made an opening speech, a respected artist who resides locally, was very interested in this work, because he himself has made paintings with orange smell. All the other works were nice and I knew almost all the artists too. The party became a nice reunion :-)

INTERVENTIONS | Lucena-Córdoba


INTERVENTIONS | Lucena-Córdoba
From 4th to November 12th, 2011
ILIOS (GR)Live Performace for specific locationPalacio de los Condes de Santa Ana, BasementThursday November 4th - 22:00
http://www.siteilios.gr/

Bruce McClure - LIVE  (US)
Audiovisual performance
Teatro Palacio Erisana, Basement
November 5th - 20:30

Binaural Location Performance - Dallas Simpson (UK)Live Performance for specific locationIglesia de San Juan de DiosNovember 10th 19:00
http://www.dallassimpson.com/
Immersive live concert in darkness - Francisco López (ES)Multichannel acousmatic concertIglesia de San Juan de DiosNovember 11th - 21:00
http://www.franciscolopez.net/
Massages Sonores - Pascal Battus (FR)Live Performance for one person
Palacio de los condes de Santa Ana
November 10th from 12:00 to 14:00 and from 10:30 to 23:00, November 11th from 12:00 to 14:00 and from 18:00 to 20:00
http://pbattus.free.fr/
Archisonic - Mark Bain (US/NL)Live Performance for specific locationMercado Municipal de AbastosNovember 12th - 20:30
http://www.simulux.com/ 
Teatro Palacio Erisana - Plaza Nueva nº1. Lucena
Iglesia de San Juan de Dios - La Calzada nº 1. Lucena
Mercado Municipal de Abastos - Plaza Alta y Baja nº 1. Lucena




  
WORKSHOPS | Lucena


3rd and November 4th, 2011

Palacio de los Condes de Santa Ana. Lucena



Somos vibración. Propiedades y uso del sonido, tácticas de excitación del espacio 
(Weare vibration. Properties and use of sound) - ILIOS (GR)




Sensxperiment 2011: Sensorial immersion 
mediateletipos.net / Sensxperiment



Visit mediateletipos.net/sensxperiment to see more specific english content  withreferences to some of the artists participating in 2011 . HC GilgeILIOS and Mark BainTelcosysitemsMaki UedaDallas SimpsonBruce McClure, the Dreamachineos other aspects of the exhibition like primitism, live cinema o relations withinteraction


Consultation on our details, times and locations or follow us on facebook andtwitter.

Weekend Proms

Palacios 32, 14900 Lucena (Córdoba).Spain

media@sensxperiment.es

www.sensxperiment.es

www.mediateletipos.net/sensxperiment

www.mase.es

www.mediateletipos-retrospecta.net

15.10.11

exhibiting OLFACTOSPACE in Lucena, Cordoba Spain




SENSXPERIMENT
http://www.sensxperiment.es/


.20.10. - 13.11.2011
at Lucena, Cordoba Spain



20th October – 12th November 2011. Lucena-Córdoba
After ten years of activity Sensxperiment International Creation Meeting will be organized in a triennial basis, so most activities of the current eleventh edition will take place in October and November 2011, mainly in Lucena and Cordoba, Spain.
The topic chosen for this edition is ‘Sensory Immersion’.
We do not have to talk only about the history of arts and entertainment, this phenomenon has always been integrated in the quotidian experience and it appears also in most popular rituals, from the ancient indigenous cultures to all kinds of Western celebrations, in a rave or a metal performance.
Today there are a lot of artistic and entertainment pieces that promote themselves using extensively the term ‘immersion’. In many cases this term underlines their multisensoriality, hyper-reality or a somewhat intimate and subjective character, in other occasions it is maybe just a way to stress their magnificent technologies.
Anyway, let´s talk about what it is interesting for us and what we will deal with in this project. Our aim is to examine this elusive concept departing from a series of artistic works based mostly in the use of audiovisual media and with a special emphasis in topics related to the exploration of the surrounding, intimate and physical qualities of sound. The aim is to show recent works, but also relevant pieces from the past, all of them considered interesting mostly because (but not exclusively) of their value as perceptive experiences. We also would like to contextualize these kinds of work, examining them from a critical point of view. Several interweaved lines of investigation will be drawn, dealing with topics such as expanded and live cinema, the relationships between sound and space, the soundwalk, deep listening or the soundscape. In short, we are more interested in perception and the sensory than in the spectacular or the strictly technological issues behind many works catalogued as immersive.
The basic structure of this project ia a dynamic investigation process started in 2009 led by some of the editors of mediateletipos.net and it take form in a series of regular online publications, as an accompaniment for the physical events that will take place in this year (and some that taken place in the last year 2010). All the posts related to this project are published within the usual flow of the site, but they are grouped also in a special section.

10.3.11

a Geisha was introducing my olfactory works in her radio program

It's almost a half year ago...  

I was introduced in the radio program navigated by a geisha MAKOTO.  She is a [real] Kyoto's geisha, or in other word geigi - meaning a professional Japanese dancer and entertainer, and also a jazz singer.  She also came to the opening of my exhibition where I exhibited works themed upon geisha's and Dutch men of 400 years back in Japan. ...  I was very impressed.  

Just for her honor I'd like to mention that "geisha" does not necessary mean prostitute as one imagines in Western context. She's the geisha carrying responsibilities of inheriting the real Japanese tradition.  She is sooooo beautiful!


(MAKOTO in wikipedia)  

excerpt from MAKOTO'S BLOG:「京女のつれづれ草」

SML9/23ゲストは匂いと臭覚のアーティスト 上田麻希さんでした!

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オランダから お仕事で日本に来られている間に ご出演頂きました~。

彼女との出会いは 京都市若者会議U35と 京都造形芸術大学での世界アーティストサミットのコラボで 京都について話し合うという企画での出会いでした。

香りのアート?!っと、初めて出会うアートで興味津々な上に アックティブでさっぱりした上田麻希さんの魅力に引き込まれました。

それから、友人としても仲良くしてもらってます。

そんな、麻希さんは 10/2~24まで大阪の阿波座にあります スペースアンフラマンスにて 展覧会をされます。

“匂い” って、良い匂い または その逆 いろんな角度から接してみると あたりまえに匂うものが 面白かったり、、という事に気づかされます。

10/2からの展覧会は オランダの匂いや 大阪の匂い、そして 江戸時代の芸者さんが使っていた 江戸時代コスメ?! などの展示をされています。

是非とも、珍しいアートなので 是非 お出かけ下さいませ~。

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broadcasted on the 23rd of September, 2010
on Sweet Marble n' Lovers
alfa station Kyoto

11.10.10

OLFACTOSCAPE (solo exhibition) @ Osaka, till 10.24.10

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"OLFACTOSCAPE" - OLFACTORY TRAVEL IN TIME AND SPACE -

2010.10.2 (SAT) - 10.24(SUN) , WED closed
OPEN…12:00~20:00
With thanks to: Dutch Consulate in Osaka, Mondoriaan Foundation, Asahi Beer, Yamamoto Perfumery Co. Ltd.


inframince, inc.
address: 1-9-12, Awaza, Nishi-ku, Osaka, 550-0011, Japan 



tel: 06-6541-9520






fax: 06-6541-9521






e-mail: contact(at)inframince.jp





■ "OLFACTOSCAPE"

olfacto = olfactory
scape = scenery



* research project [OLFACTSCAPE]

It's a 3m diameter space created with a curtain.  The walls are painted with smells.

OLFACTOSCAPE is a word that I made up with OLFACTO (=olfactory) and SCAPE (=scenery) .

Japanese people have unique sense for scents. Smelling as if viewing the landscape, they are appreciating the scents. They feel tipsy with the sweet scents under the cherry blossoms tree in the early spring night, and they feel the autumn for the scents of Osmanthus.

Let us observe such landscapes with our "nose". Close your eyes, and search in this 3m diameter cylinder for scents, like a dog. There would be a scent that is coming closer to you, and on a contrary, getting away from you. Is there a scent that attracts you, or that makes you getting closer to it? This is a research project of searching for the boundary and the possibilities of our sense of smell.

The selection of the scents is based on the dialogue I had with Inframince Co. The theme is "the ordinary scents around us, past + present + future"

- hinoki
- camphor
- lily of the valley
- cherry blossoms
- wild rose
- forest with fallen leaves
- ginger
- yuzu
- matsutake
- wild lily
- cinnamon
- grass
etc.







* AROMASCAPE OF OSAKA

In the workshop we have developed different extracts of the Osaka's most characteristic scents.
The smell map was also developed in a workshop.





[extraction workshop]
















* AROMASCAPE OF ROTTERDAM

It's coupled with "AROMASCAPE OF OSAKA". The extracts are developed by the students of Willem de Kooning Academy during the project-week workshop in May 2010.





* research project [Cosmetics of 400 years ago]

These cosmetics were originally developed for the exhibition "Holland Mania" held at De Lakenhal Leiden Stedelijk Museum in May 2009. These scents offer you the perspectives of the Dutch merchants who stationed in Japan's Desima-island for trading. They were the cosmetics that geisha's were wearing. They function as a medium for you to connect to the time and space.

1. Ohaguro
2. Scents of Beauty
3. Dew of Flower
4. Oil of Kyara
5. Seductive Oil
6. Perfume to Ingest











* SCENTS OF HOLLAND (for sale, limited edition)

SCENTS OF HOLLAND is a perfume series for enjoying the smells rather than wearing. The scents are manually extracted by the artist.

NO. 1 Hyacinth
NO. 2 Dutch Cheese
NO. 3 Speculaas spices
NO. 4 Autumn Leaves
NO. 5 Brussels Sprout



30 sets limited
price: 4800 yen
please contact inframince for details.