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Every inhalation a new surprise

Posted by Robin on 6 February 2019 2 Comments

According to other artists in the smell art community, the Smeller does what no one else in the intervening time period has ever managed to do: it pumps a series of defined, distinct smells into the room, one after the next. The scents dissipate just as the next one arrives: horse, then cinnamon, and then something that reminded me of an underground car park. Different types of berry, in vibrato, one after the other. No sound, no visuals, just a scent, and then another, every inhalation a new surprise.

— Artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf's Smeller 2.0, at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius Bau museum last summer. Read more at Welcome to the Cinema of Smells, where movies are a different kind of cheesy at The Outline. (Further reading: A Symphony of Smells: An Interview with Wolfgang Georgsdorf at BerlinArtLink.)

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Tagged With: conceptual art, public space scenting

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  1. therabbitsflower says:
    6 February 2019 at 11:58 am

    Great article from The Outline. Georgsdorf’s Smeller machine sounds amazing, and it was cool to read about the history of smell art.

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    • Robin says:
      6 February 2019 at 12:08 pm

      I am perplexed about why it appears now, so long after the event, but it was very interesting!

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