Shown as part of The Big Anxiety Festival
Archives of Feeling : The Children’s Sensorium
Smell is the most primal of the senses
Direct to the brain, all the others take a slightly longer route
Anxiety can heighten this sense, designed to warn off danger, particularly with bad
smells are recognised where others may not detect, anxiety senses out the details.
It is also fortunate that this same sense slows us down, encouraging lingering when there is an enticing or intriguing scent. Our primal nature likes to stop and smell the roses, redirecting that heightened sense to something pleasurable.
Scent is a form of time travel, it stops time, it folds time, it moves slowly, it is immediate.
It attaches to moments, our brains link the individual pieces as scent knits them together so we make sense of it
This work is an invitation to discover new connections
Playing with expectations using natural/unnatural scents with organic forms
Installation views of Achives of Feeling,The Children’s Sensorium 2022 RMIT Design Hub
Featuring:
Tamara Borovica, Heather Hesterman, Fiona Hillary, Larissa Hjorth, Live Particle (Angela Clarke and Camilla Maling), Philip Samartzis, Anna Schwann and Hiromi Tango, with leading artistic direction from Boonwurrung elder N'arweet Carloyn Briggs, and with designs by Anthony ClarkeImages: Tobias Titz.
Australia is stolen land.
I pay my respects to the traditional custodians of the lands, sky and waterways where I live and dream with
grateful thanks to the generations past and hope for the future.
Sovereignty was never ceded
Pay the rent
I pay my respects to the traditional custodians of the lands, sky and waterways where I live and dream with
grateful thanks to the generations past and hope for the future.
Sovereignty was never ceded
Pay the rent