Tag: NYC

A photorealistic image of a white woman’s legs wearing a black skirt and brown tennis shoes steps out of a subway. To her right is a pile of dog shit she is trying to avoid. Credit: Imagine.Art.

“Dog Shit” * Nonfiction * Ro Miller

aromatica poetica May 29, 2024

I stepped in dog shit right before getting on a Brooklyn-bound Q train and spent the remaining twenty-six minutes considering scent as a social factor. The first thing about dog shit is the feel of the sole of your shoe sliding beneath you. The squish is muted, but immediately there is an odor. Not one that you can smell but rather one that exists as quiet disgust in the back of your throat. A quick glance backward pushes the nausea …

Two photos (curtesy Anna Novakov) of women having a sensory experience in the gallery. They are smelling scent strips with misty vertical bands of the 7 colors of the spectrum behind and suffusing through them.

Sensory Transposition: A Triadic Exchange Between Ron Hutt, Andreas Keller and Anna Novakov

aromatica poetica May 12, 2023

Sensory Transposition: A Triadic Exchange Between Ron Hutt, Andreas Keller and Anna For the past several years, composer Ron Hutt and olfactory artist Anna Novakov have worked together in a collaboration they call Provisional Art Space (PAS). Through a process of sensory transposition, they create performances that bridge sounds and scents. Inspired by a palette of seven chromatic hues, they compose fragrances and movements that, when performed together, shapeshift between sensory associations. Their performances, hosted in 2023 by Andreas Keller, …

An illustration of Ernest Gilman, wearing a red polka-dot bowtie, blue shirt, and brown jacket, sitting on a New York City subway with his fancy briefcase reading. Thanks to his anosmia, he is unaware of the toxic-looking green vapors emanating from the homeless man rummaging in his many bags nearby and traveling right beneath his nose, and therefor remains unperturbed. By Alabaster Rhumb.

Anosmia: My Newly Discovered Disability * Nonfiction * Ernest Gilman

aromatica poetica September 1, 2021

“ Par ma foi !” cries Molière’s would-be bourgeois gentleman M. Jourdain: “For more than forty years I have been speaking prose while knowing nothing of it”! I had my own Molière moment just recently when I learned that there was actually a name—and a scientific name at that—for my inability to smell: “anosmia.” I myself might otherwise have come up with a name like “olfactory deprivation,” or perhaps “smell blindness” (I know this is controversial), but I wanted to imply a …

Image of Christophe’s trusted Maltese, Yuki, walking on a blue tansy-scented floor in the lab. By the author for Rhinoferocious.

Olfactory Report 7: Rhinoferocious * Catherine Haley Epstein

aromatica poetica August 12, 2021

Rhinoferocious – a word to describe those who defend perfumery as an art Rhino-art – art for your nose Rhinographies – the study of the tendencies of a unique nose. –Words coined and inspired by scent artist, Christophe Laudamiel, included in the Odorbet. I’ve just returned from my first trip to New York City post-covid pingdemic times. A key theme for me during the week is that the handmade is extremely important right now. Human touch is lost in many …