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An ERC Consolidator Grant Project researching the intervening performativity of smell across time, space, and disciplines. PI: Prof. Dr. Silke Felber, University of Arts Linz (Austria) https://olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

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Sensory Sciences Lecture Series The Sensory Sciences Lecture Series takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 16:15 Lectures are held by either two scientist from different faculties at FAU in pairs of two times 20 minutes...

www.chemistry.nat.fau.eu/aroma-smell-...

08.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pomander with musk ball, cross, and ring (apple of musk). Maker: Anonymous (Kulmbach?), mid-16th century. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Pomander with musk ball, cross, and ring (apple of musk). Maker: Anonymous (Kulmbach?), mid-16th century. Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

What can an object the size of a plum reveal about the smellscapes of early modern Europe—and their gendered and racialized afterlives?
Tomorrow @fau.de, Silke will trace the pomander and discuss our #ERC project #OLFAC within the Sensory Lectures series — join via Zoom 👇 #olfactory #sensoryStudies

08.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Exciting!

08.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Julia Ostwald is a postdoctoral researcher for #ERC #OLFAC. In her research, she explores entanglements of aesthetics, sensual perceptions, and (body-)politics, as well as stagings of #breath, air, and #smell in #dance and movement practices in history.
#olfactory#sensorystudies

06.10.2025 12:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Freda Fiala is a cultural researcher whose work explores the entangled relations between Central Europe and East Asia. As a postdoctoral researcher in #ERC #OLFAC, her research focuses on how trans-cultural and trans-modern circuits shape identity and #sensory knowledges.
#olfactory #smellstudies

30.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Silke Felber: "“Since I can remember, I have feverishly sought out situations and actors capable of making my senses reel. I long for moments when “those precious, experienced eyes” (to borrow Nabokov’s phrase) can no longer be trusted—when the intricate dance of my body’s tacit knowledge falters under the sudden intrusion of reason. I thirst for the fleeting illusion of movement conjured by a passing train, as though I myself were in motion; for objects whose misjudged weight sends my torso lurching upward in eerie haste. But what happens when the nose, too, is drawn into these moments of faltering? And might such stumblings unsettle the ingrained habits that our bodies, through years of socialization, have so deeply internalized?“ OLFAC

Silke Felber: "“Since I can remember, I have feverishly sought out situations and actors capable of making my senses reel. I long for moments when “those precious, experienced eyes” (to borrow Nabokov’s phrase) can no longer be trusted—when the intricate dance of my body’s tacit knowledge falters under the sudden intrusion of reason. I thirst for the fleeting illusion of movement conjured by a passing train, as though I myself were in motion; for objects whose misjudged weight sends my torso lurching upward in eerie haste. But what happens when the nose, too, is drawn into these moments of faltering? And might such stumblings unsettle the ingrained habits that our bodies, through years of socialization, have so deeply internalized?“ OLFAC

Silke Felber is the principal investigator of our #ERC -Project #OLFAC researching the intervening performativity of Smells. Her academic work transcends disciplinary boundaries, integrating Theatre, Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies.
read more about her work on our Website! #olfactory #sensory

16.09.2025 13:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Pfui oder hui? Gestank als Waffe, Duft als Potenzmittel Forscherinnen der Kunstuni Linz wollen Europas olfaktorisches Wissen rehabilitieren – und unser aller Nasen für die guten wie schlechten Gerüche, die uns umgeben, wieder schärfen.

Gestank als Waffe, Duft als Potenzmittel! Silke Felber im Interview mit @diepressecom.bsky.social über #Geruchsforschung und der Macht des Olfaktorischen!
#OLFAC #sensorystudies #olfactory #skunkwater

08.09.2025 08:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
OLFAC – Exploring the Intervening Performativity of Smell

there's much to explore about the intervening performativity of smells! Check out our Website: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at
#sensorystudies #OLFAC #Olfactory

26.08.2025 10:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We look forward to sharing methods, results, and events — and to connecting with researchers and artists working with and on the senses.
#sensorystudies #ScienceComm

21.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OLFAC explores how olfactory techniques and technologies are mobilised – in both artistic practice and through mechanisms of governance. By developing a theory of olfactory performativity, OLFAC opens new perspectives on sensory experience.

21.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Our Team researches in a highly cross-disciplinary manner, involving #SensoryStudies #CulturalStudies #TheatreStudies #PerformanceStudies, #DanceStudies, #EastAsianStudies and #HistoryOfKnowledge!

21.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We’re excited to introduce ourselves: OLFAC (Olfactormativity: Exploring The Intervening Performativity Of Smell), is a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant project (2024–2029), hosted at the University of Arts Linz (Austria).
#ERC #OLFAC #UniversityofArtsLinz #research

21.08.2025 11:15 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

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