Olfactory Injustice
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01/2018
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This paper studies ways in which olfactory art can be political and disruptive: how
it may serve to challenge audiences’ perceptions in otherwise deodorized exhibition spaces, for example, and how smell-art pieces may trigger disruptive events which undermine confirmed visual habits of art consumption. How does this work? Medical research on olfactory sensations shows that we process smell on a more emotional level of empathy than visual aesthetic information. As a case in point I analyze Teresa Margolles' art work Vaporización (2002); my contribution intends to demonstrate
how olfactory art such as this employs the moment of interference through smell in a visual art world in order to activate empathy on a political level.
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CAA College Art Association Annual Conference, LA (Panel: Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance)
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King, D. (2018, January). Olfactory Injustice. CAA College Art Association Annual Conference, LA (Panel: Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance). http://hdl.handle.net/11654/27288