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
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!
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Am 28.2. - 17:05 Uhr, Ö1 einschalten: Diagonal über die Macht des #olfactory – von #Duft als sozialer Distinktion bis zu KI-Parfums, Museumsgerüchen und dem Duftmarken-Affentheater in Social Media. Silke Felber und unser Projekt #OLFAC mit dabei im Radio. Nicht verpassen!📻
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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
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
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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...
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. 🌫️
We warmly wish you a happy #NewYear2026! we're still looking back fondly on our #OLFAC #Symposium in Vienna last december, where we explored #Sensing across the #Humanities, #Sciences, and #Arts. Stay tuned for our recap, followed by exciting 2026 announcements!
#sensorystudies #olfactory
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...
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!
Diesen Samstag hält Silke einen Vortrag mit dem Titel: »Making Sense: #Klimaungerechtigkeit und ihre #multisensorischen Resonanzräume«
im Zuge der Tagung des #iwk #Wien.
Mehr infos auch auf der #OLFAC Website!
#savethedate
International Symposium "OLFAC. Sensing Across the Humanities, Sciences and Arts"
3-5 December 2025
International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna
👉 Further information […]
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
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
Alongside conducting research conversations, Freda visited museums, heritage sites, and local workshops where natural #camphor is still chopped, refined, and distilled by hand.
She'll share her insights at the first #OLFAC #Symposium in December - Stay tuned!
"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
Pomander with musk ball, cross, and ring (apple of musk). Maker: Anonymous (Kulmbach?), mid-16th century. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.
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
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
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
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
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
Gestank als Waffe, Duft als Potenzmittel! Silke Felber im Interview mit @diepressecom.bsky.social über #Geruchsforschung und der Macht des Olfaktorischen!
#OLFAC #sensorystudies #olfactory #skunkwater
there's much to explore about the intervening performativity of smells! Check out our Website: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at
#sensorystudies #OLFAC #Olfactory
We’re excited to introduce ourselves: OLFAC (Olfactormativity: Exploring The Intervening Performativity Of Smell), is a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant project (2024–2029), hosted at the University of Arts Linz (Austria).
#ERC #OLFAC #UniversityofArtsLinz #research
