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Reodorant II: Urban Brain ~ olfactory exhibition in New York City

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Brainwave at Exit ArtReodorant II: Urban Brain opens today as part of Brainwave: Common Senses, an exhibition responding to “current advancements in neurological research by visualizing and investigating the brain’s capacity for sense perception, memory, emotion and logic”.

Reodorant II is a…

…multi-sensory installation, created by Seru — Erik Carver, Howard Huang, Hisako Inoue, and Yuka Yokoyama. It asks: “who are we apart from a collection of memories?” To lose our memories is to stop being the person we were. Yet to live is to be bathed in a continuous flux of memories…

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Roja Dove at the Victoria & Albert Museum

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Roja Dove will be giving a lecture at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on December 14 at 7:15 pm:

Roja Dove, Maestro of Fragrance and the world’s only Professeur des Parfums reveals the stories behind great couture perfume creations including Diorissimo for Christian Dior, L’air du Temps by Nina Ricci and Balenciaga’s Le Dix. Discover how raw materials are combined and refined into uniquely named scents, presented in carefully designed bottles and enticingly offered to the wearer. Provoking, appealing, evocative; Roja Dove explains why fragrance is our most intimate layer of dress.

Tickets (£7.50 for adults) can be purchased at the Victoria & Albert Museum website. (via vam.ac.uk, found via designtaxi)

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