“Carne Vale – Olfactory Becomings” OLFAC at the 2025 IFTR Conference in Cologne
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) […]
“Soil, Fir Trees, Lavender: Scents of Solastalgia and Nostalgia in Affective States of Crisis”
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 […]
OLFAC joins the ASLE Biennial Conference 2025
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 […]
Introducing Olfactormativity: On the Role of Smells in Intervening Performing Arts
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 […]
Attention-Spanning: Live Art and Performance Curating in Taiwan’s Public Museums
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 […]
Making Sense: Climate Injustice and its Multisensory Resonance Spaces
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 […]
“Willi” and the Sensory Afterlives of Austrian Botanical Imperialism: The Case of Amorphophallus Titanum
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.