What if we approach performance from the sense of olfaction and multisensorial perceptions? What if it lingered less in the retina – and more in the nose? At this year’s International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) conference, held at the University of Cologne, Freda Fiala and Julia Ostwald stepped into exactly these questions. Our panel Carne Vale – Olfactory Becomings invited audiences to consider the […]
Julia at the DSA conference in Washington, D.C. Under the title Indeterminate States: Bodies, Fields, Praxis, this year’s international conference of the Dance Studies Association addressed the plural meanings of ‘state’ and its current indeterminacies in view of global conflicts. Held at the George Washington University/Corcoran School of the Arts & Design in Washington, D.C., the five-day […]
With its focus on Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality, the ASLE 2025 conference took place July 8–11 and engaged with topics that are likewise central to OLFAC. Bringing together scholars from sensory, breath, and smell studies, including a keynote by Hsuan Hsu, this was a great opportunity for us to meet in person with members of […]
Silke has been invited to give a talk in the Sensory Sciences Lecture Series at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In her presentation, she will explore the performative potential of olfaction, introducing the concept of “olfactormativity” to examine how smells intervene in and (re)shape our being in the world.
Museum in Motion: New Frontiers in Chinese Museum Studies Freda talks about ”Attention-Spanning: Live Art and Performance Curating in Taiwan’s Public Museums” at the Museum in Motion: New Frontiers in Chinese Museum Studies conference held at University of Siena, Arezzo Campus.
Silke has been invited to speak at the conference Entanglements and Knots: The Crises of Planetary Life in the Hands of the Arts, organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik at the Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst (IWK) in Vienna. read more. Her talk addresses the sensory dimensions of climate injustice and explores how artistic practices open up multisensory spaces […]
Silke has been invited to speak at the conference The Many Meanings of Flora: Re-Evaluating the Aesthetics and Politics of Plants, at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. read more.