Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780367552749 / Miękka / 2023 / 248 str.

Opis

This book claims a political value for olfactory artworks by situating them squarely in the contemporary moment of various forms of political resistance.

Spis treści

1 Olfactory Politics in Black Diasporic Art  2 Perfumes, Shea Butter, and Black Soap: The Smell of Resistance  3 Common Scents, a Social Sense of Smell: Orientation, Territory and the Evidence of Beings  4 The Political Potential of Smoke  5 Olfactory Resistance at the End of the World  6 Eco-olfactory Art: Experiencing the Stories of the Air We Breathe  7 Olfactivism: Scents in the City and Beyond  8 Is There Empathy through Breathing?  9 Olfaction as Radical Collaboration  10 Chrysanthemum Powder and Other Interspecies Scent Rituals  11 Eat Your Makeup: Perfume, Drag, and the Transgressions of Queer Subjects under Capitalism  12 Scented Bodies: Perfuming as Resistance and a Subversive Identity Statement  13 Women’s Smell: Towards a New Representation of the Body  14 Scent and Seduction: The Power of Smell in the Stories of Katherine Mansfield  15 The Olfactory Counter-monument: Active Smelling and the Politics of Wonder in the Contemporary Museum  16 Shaking Off Disinterested Contemplation: Toward a New Aesthetics of Smell  17 Malodors and Miasmas: The Political Potential of Working with Smell  18 Enteric Aesthetics

O autorze

Gwenn-Aël Lynn is a transdisciplinary artist who builds interactive installations that combine scents, sound, and technology to pose questions about identity, culture, and the political.

Debra Riley Parr is Associate Professor in the Art and Art History Department at Columbia College Chicago. Her current research concerns olfactory art and design in contemporary culture.