”Wound to Wall Text – Remembering Taiwan’s Late Martial Law Years in #Museum Narratives” Last week, Freda presented her paper at the European Association of #Taiwan Studies ( #EATS ) Annual #Conference at the University of Portsmouth. #OLFAC

"How can a vanishing glacier be digitally archived and made perceptible in virtual space?" We welcome Tina Frank and Alexis Dworsky for this weeks #Lecture of our series "the #Senses in #Performance" Join us tomorrow at 5 pm in Linz or online! (partly in German) www.kunstuni-linz.at/en/current/e...

Yesterday, we kicked off our #Lectureseries "The Senses in Performance" with Silke Felber, Freda Fiala & Julia Ostwald. They mapped #performance history & #sensorystudies for audiences in Linz and online, setting the stage for the semester ahead! #OLFAC #olfactory

25% of U.S. college students say they would rather lose their sense of #smell than their phone (thanks for the data, Rachel Herz!). Olfactory cultural studies clearly have work to do. Thanks to the organizers of the "Odorous Object" conference @brown.edu! @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social #ERC #ERCCoG

We're excited for the start of our Lecture series: THE SENSES IN PERFORMANCE by #OLFAC! Starting next week, Wednesdays, 5:00–6:30 pm CET. Join us in Linz or online via Livestream. Artists & scholars explore the senses as dynamic sites of practice & inquiry! olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/lecture-seri...

Am 28.2. - 17:05 Uhr, Ö1 einschalten: Diagonal über die Macht des #olfactory – von #Duft als sozialer Distinktion bis zu KI-Parfums, Museumsgerüchen und dem Duftmarken-Affentheater in Social Media. Silke Felber und unser Projekt #OLFAC mit dabei im Radio. Nicht verpassen!📻 oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Coming up! on February 24, Silke gives a public #lecture at the Deutsches Haus at New York University titled " #Olfactory #Arts in a Warming World”. Following the lecture, she will be in conversation with Zachary Samalin and Brandon Woolf. #OLFAC #NYU as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

In November last year, The first #OLFAC #ArtistResidency was dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between #smell, #affect, and bodily #movement. read more about choreographer Paola Bianchi and the musician-composer Stefano Murgia here: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/artists-in-r...

The Final day of the #OLFAC #Symposium made essences emerge. fascinating talks and lecture performances on #olfactory of Lindsey French, Alanna Lynch, Helene Loos and Clara Muller. Sarah Kolb & Freda Fiala in dialogue on fungal volatiles. it opened a dense atmosphere of questions. 🌫️

A couple of photos from my performed lecture for the @olfac.bsky.social symposium in Vienna this past week. Thank you so much we all had a blast!

Day 2 of the #OLFAC#Symposium was stimulating our #senses with fascinating lectures of Dorothée King and Hsuan L. Hsu. Gwenn-Aël Lynn took us to space with his lectureperformance. Also our OLFAC team members, Silke Felber, Julia Ostwald and Freda Fiala gave us their insights on the #olfactory. -->

Day 1 of the #OLFAC#Symposium: Athmospheres unfold. With Debra Riley Parr joining us online, Marco Tullio Liuzza giving us insights and a lecture performance full of Garlic by Brandon Woolf, finished by a #sensory performance by the collective Mai Ling, it smelled like a wonderful start! #olfactory

We warmly wish you a happy #NewYear2026! we're still looking back fondly on our #OLFAC #Symposium in Vienna last december, where we explored #Sensing across the #Humanities, #Sciences, and #Arts. Stay tuned for our recap, followed by exciting 2026 announcements! #sensorystudies #olfactory

in two Days, Vienna will have a special #smell! #OLFAC will host its #interdisciplinary #Symposium at the @ifk-vienna.bsky.social! Join us for Sensing across the Humanities, Sciences and Arts! the full Programm is on our Website: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/olfac-sensin...

This week we welcomed choreographer Paola Bianchi and musician Stefano Murgia, who will be Artists in Residence with the ERC project #OLFAC until December 12, 2025. At our Get Together, they explained their #choreographic and #olfactory research!

you can already spot the poster of our #OLFAC#Symposium all around Kunstuniversität Linz. we are so excited for December 3rd-5th, where it'll be all about #sensing across the #humanities #sciences and #Arts! See you in Vienna at the @ifk-vienna.bsky.social

Diesen Samstag hält Silke einen Vortrag mit dem Titel: »Making Sense: #Klimaungerechtigkeit und ihre #multisensorischen Resonanzräume« im Zuge der Tagung des #iwk #Wien. Mehr infos auch auf der #OLFAC Website!

Our Program for the #OLFAC#Symposium is out now! We warmly welcome all those interested in the multisensory, critical, and imaginative dimensions of #smell to join us in Vienna! More information on our Website! olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/olfac-sensin... #sensory#olfactory#sciences#culturalstudies

this week, Freda Fiala will talk about ”Entangled Worlds and the Logistics of Chinese Display in the 1873 Wiener Weltausstellung" at the Habsburg Central Europe in Global History Summer School in Prague! @ikwoeaw.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social #GlobalHistory #WorldExpositions #OLFAC

COMING UP! 3 – 5 December 2025 | @ifk-vienna.bsky.social Join the first #Symposium of #OLFAC, bringing together researchers across the #humanities, #sciences, and #arts to explore the #olfactory dimensions of knowledge and experience. #InterdisciplinaryStudies #SensoryHumanities #SaveTheDate

"The scent is unforgettable—sharp and crystalline, like a forest splitting open." Freda Fiala conducted a fieldwork trip to #Taiwan to research the memory politics of the island’s #camphor 樟腦 trade - a historic global industry. #Extraction #CulturalMemory #MaterialEcologies #OLFAC

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

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

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

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

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

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