with a great talk about "A loving ear – toward a poetic ecology of feeling", Brandon LaBelle held the final Lecture of our #lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance". Thank you to everyone who joined online and in Linz. you can find more impressions of all lectures here: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

in what ways does feeling allow for a form of holistic sensing? today at 5 pm, we welcome Brandon LaBelle to the last session of our #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance" We're excited for his Talk "A loving ear – toward a poetic ecology of feeling" join online of the final lecture!

"Thinking democratic interactions as multisensorial and embodied fosters more- than-human articulations and representations that have been excluded from logos-centric and anthropocentric democratic discourse." Thank you Bettina Wuttig for your interesting Talk in our #OLFAC #lectureseries!

OLFAC on the Road in June! Julia Ostwald presented her paper "Olfactory Atmospheres of Evil in Romantic Ballet" at the #conference "Performing Evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000" at Leuven University. www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgesch... #OLFAC

How do multisensorial and embodied approaches help identify the hierarchical (pre-)structuring of political fields? Today at 5pm, join the lecture "Hee-Hawing Democracy: Somatic Articulations Beyond the Logos" by Bettina Wuttig as part of our #lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance" #OLFAC

Thank you so much @erikawicky.bsky.social for letting us sense the Atmosphere of a painters' studio in Nineteenth-Century France! we really enjoyed your talk in our #lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"

How did a studio #smell in the 19th Century? Today, 5pm, we welcome @erikawicky.bsky.social to our #lectureseries with her talk: "Sensing the Atmospheres of Painters’ Studios in Nineteenth-Century France" Join online! "the #Senses in #Performance" by #OLFAC register: [email protected]

Thank you, @willtullett.bsky.social, for taking us through the history of stink bombs in your lecture " #Olfactory Violence and the Freedom to Speak: #Stink Bombs in Interwar Europe"! you can find more impressions and the full program of our #lectureseries on our website: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

🎙️Out now! The 1st #OLFAC #podcast is live on @ifk-vienna.bsky.social "Kultur denken" series. Based on our #symposium in December 2025, we ask: What does it mean to think through #smell as a mode of knowledge? featuring Hsuan L. Hsu, Brandon Woolf, Dorothée King & Gwenn-Aël Lynn #listennow

Vielen Dank an alle, die an der Demonstration teilgenommen haben. Gemeinsam haben wir ein starkes Zeichen für die Zukunft der Universitäten gesetzt und treten weiterhin für Qualität in Lehre und Forschung, für Chancengerechtigkeit und Zukunftsfähigkeit ein. #UnisRetten

I am speaking later, in Linz and online! What do stink bombs do and how/why did people use them? How did their use vary in different countries? How did they differ from previous smelly weapons and/or attempts at smelly disruption of public events? These are some of the things I'm thinking about.

#UnisRetten: Zukunft lässt sich nicht einsparen‼️✊ Gemeinsam auf die Straße gehen und ein Zeichen setzen -gegen die geplanten Einsparungen und für Qualität in Lehre & Forschung, für Chancengerechtigkeit & Zukunftsfähigkeit! 📅: 27. Mai, 13 Uhr 📍: Hauptgebäude Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/un...

What is the fate of #smell as a tool of #activism and/or political repression? Today at 5 pm, we're excited to welcome @willtullett.bsky.social to our #lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance" with his talk: #Olfactory Violence and the Freedom to Speak: #StinkBombs in Interwar Europe

Thank you Ulrike Hanstein for "Lingering with "Bass" (2024, Steve McQueen)" with us in your talk about how this durational #audiovisual performance could link embodied #sensory perceptions with social constructions of race! stay tuned for more of our #Lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance"

How does Steve McQueen's immersive installation "Bass" use pulsating light and deep sound to make the haunting history of violence and race physically tangible? we welcome Ulrike Hanstein from #Valieexport center in #Linz to our #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance" Tomorrow - 5 pm!

Thank you Myia Yoshida for your sensitive, grounding #lecture "Mimi o Sumasu – the Very Act of Listening." Through images, sound and poetry, she explored this notion as attunement to ecological sensitivity, where time becomes both the subject and the method of inquiry for unsayble. #OLFAC

"Mimi o Sumasu – the Very Act of Listening" we're excited to welcome Miya Yoshida (Artistic Research, University of Applied Arts Vienna) Today at 5 pm to our #lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance" join us #online! (register via [email protected]) olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

Thank you to #bankleer aka Karin Kasböck & Christoph Maria Leitner for last week's lecture of our #OLFAC #lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"! in "Sinn für Unlösbares" they talked about how the #climatecrisis is also a crisis of #perception. stay tuned for tomorrow's lecture!

"Healing Architecture - Wie Architektur heilen hilft" und wie prägend dabei #Gerüche für die #Atmosphäre sind, erzählt Silke Felber #Ö1 #Radiokolleg! schaltet ein! Morgen, 12.05. um 9:30 Uhr! oe1.orf.at/programm/202... #OLFAC#Radio

#Publication #News! 📖 Julia Ostwald published the article "Choreographing Magnetism. The Performance of Knowledge in the Ethereal Field of Forces" in the edited volume "The Theatrics of Persuasion in the Long Nineteenth Century" at @leuvenup.bsky.social #openaccess: doi.org/10.2307/jj.3... #OLFAC

"Wie kann #Kunst eine Tür zu dem öffnen, was uns umgibt, sich ständig verändert, aber nicht zu greifen ist?" This week's #Lecture by artist-duo bankleer, Karin Kasböck & Christoph Maria Leitner will build a bridge of the #Senses and #climatecrisis. Note: German language olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

"Tasting skin - on chillies and chills" Thank you Karin Harrasser for your fascinating perspective on Diego #Velázquez and how the #skin can be seen as a profoundly political organ. Join our #OLFAC #Lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance" Wednesdays at 5pm.

How can the tactile sense be explored as both multimodal and connected to ideas of the social, the sensus communis, or common sense? tomorrow at 5 pm. we welcome Karin Harrasser, director of @ifk-vienna.bsky.social, to our #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance" olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

🐍 sssss 🐍 Thank you Nicole Haitzinger ( #DanceStudies, University of Salzburg) and Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar ( #Tanzquartier Vienna #TQW) for this very insightful talk about "Performing #Snakes ind #Modernity and Today" Tune in for the #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"

"Sind #Gerüche politisch?" Unser von #ERC gefördertes Projekt #OLFAC bei der Langen Nacht der Forschung 2026! Kunstuniversität Linz - Hauptplatz 6, HS A / EG - 21:30 Uhr langenachtderforschung.at/station/6981

After this break of 3 weeks, we're excited that the #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance will continue! "Performing Snakes in Modernity and Today" by Nicole Haitzinger and Christina Gillinger This Wednesday 5 PM - join us online (registration via [email protected])

”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