‘Scent sculptor’ and perfumer Christophe Laudamiel is participating in Armchair Parade, a multimedia installation at Dillon Gallery in New York City. Also on view: puppets by Julian Crouch, films by Ragnar Freidank and The Big Boing (a handmade, 24-foot lamellophone created by Mark Stewart, which can be played by visitors)…
What does Debussy smell like? It might not be something you've had cause to wonder, but it was the burning question when I took my seat to hear the composer's String Quartet in G minor on Saturday. On my seat was a small black box that said "Open Me", and inside the lid another message: "Smell Me". Just sitting and listening to music is so 2013. This was to be a completely multi-sensory experience.
— Lyndsey Winship writes about Bittersuite's synaesthesia-inspired concerts. Read more at Scented scarves, scampering fingers and ice: concerts the immersive way at the Guardian.
Hidden architecture and its possibilities are explored further by Sissel Tolaas’ olfactory map of Tokyo and her walls painted in emulsion containing microencapsulated scents taken from the sweat of different men. The room of “difficult smells,” was alive with visitors and yells of “kusai!” (“stinks!”).
— Scent artist Sissel Tolaas is participating in BUNNY SMASH: design to touch the world at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. The exhibit runs through 19 January. Read more at Smashing ideas on future design and technology at The Japan Times.
“The idea is that you take it, and you smell it, and you walk around with it and just imagine it,” explained Loboda. The formula is such a costly blend of tobacco, tuberose and ambrox that Firmenich has no plans to sell it.
— Artist Maria Loboda, talking about her installation "Smoking Room in a Private Palais in Brussels as Seen From the Entrance, 1905,” at the Frieze Art Fair on Randalls Island in New York, and the accompanying fragrance developed by perfumer Honorine Blanc. Read more at An Artist Recreates a Smoking Room With Flowers and Perfume at the New York Times.
Gallery Libby Sellers in London is hosting 8 Chairs by Clarke & Reilly, an exhibit with accompanying fragrances by Azzi Glasser…