What is olfactory art?
What kind of works are there in olfactory art?
Having been active in the field of olfactory art since 2005, I have developed hundreds of olfactory works. In this talk I will introduce some of my “key works” and let you walk through the path of my questions “What could olfactory art bring to human beings?” The talk is based on the text “Questions Regarding Olfactory Art” written for the publication “Nouveaux territoires de l'expérience olfactive”.
Max 100 participants on Zoom.
Starting at 10:00 AM 15 Sep JST
Recording available for 1 week.
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ABOUT OUR PARTNER
Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1974. Currently based in Okinawa and Tokyo, Japan. Olfactory artist Maki Ueda (JP/NL) focuses the spectator’s attention on her fragrant gestures by minimizing the influence of the other senses. Her current research explores olfaction in relation to space and movement resulting in strong, often universal, approaches. She focuses on the pure experience of a smell instead of a more contextual or narrative approach. In addition to her own creative work, she has taught courses on olfactory art at the ArtScience Interfaculty of The Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (NL) since 2009.
She has developed a unique combination of chemical and kitchen skills in order to extract the scents of daily life, including foods, ambient aromas, and bodily scents. She creates scents that capture childhood, identity, a mood, or a historical event. The results of her experiments take the form of olfactory installations and workshops. She has inspired and influenced many olfactory artists by making her process and recipes "open source" on her blog, and became one of the most famous olfactory artists (listed on the Wikipedia page "olfactory art")
Maki Ueda studied media art under Masaki Fujihata at The Environmental Information Department (B.A. 1997, M.A. 1999), Keio University, Japan. She received a grant from the Japanese government in 2000 and from the POLA Art Foundation in 2007. She has been based in The Netherlands from 2000 till 2011. She studied perfumery at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery in 2008.
She has been nominated for the Art and Olfaction Awards Sadakichi category, the world's olfactory art hall of fame, for five consecutive years so far, winning in 2022.