Der Klang des Duftes

Duftzeremonie

“Der Klang des Duftes” / Ife0 Foto: Jeanette Müller

Anläßlich von Japan-NOW! unter der Schirmherrschaft der Japanischen Botschaft ist das IfeO – Institut für experimentelle Olfaktorik zu Gast bei Habari – Design Store, 1060 Wien, 15.11.2019, 18.30 Uhr

Der Kulturwissenschafter und Duftkünstler Paul Divjak und der Apotheker Alexander Ehrmann beschäftigen sich im Rahmen des von ihnen gegründeten Instituts für experimentelle Olfaktorik (IfeO) grenzüberschreitend mit dem Thema Geruch. Mit ihren sinnlichen Duftreisen laden die beiden als OMCs (Olfactory Masters of Ceremony) unter Bezugnahme auf die traditionelle japanische Kōdō-Zeremonie zum Innehalten, zum bewußten Wahrnehmen und zur synästhetischen Erfahrung von erlesenen Duftessenzen, getrockneten Kräutern und Räucherwerk ein.
Welche Assoziationen läßt thailändischer Pandan auf niederösterreichischen Himbeerblättern entstehen? Wie schmeckt der Unterschied zwischen Weihrauchharz aus dem Oman und dem aus Somaliland? Und womöglich hören wir sie ja tatsächlich, die japanische Minze auf mallorquinischem Salbei, nachdem wir erst einmal die deutsche Marihuanablüte auf burgenländischen Brennnesseln gerochen haben?

Alles riecht auf seine Weise. Die Welt duftet und sie stinkt. - Und jedes Atmen ist mögliches riechen.

2015Scent Lab ViennaSmellscapes

Letztes Jahr in Jerusalem

Duftinstallation, Jüdisches Museum Hohenems

Jerusalem – Mahane Jehuda Market

Smellscape / scent installation, 2015
Garden of the Jewish Museum, Hohenems
(In cooperation with the On-Site Art Festival)

With his smellscape Paul Divjak is stepping into an olfactory dialogue with the current exhibition at the Jewish Museum: „A Streetcar Named Desired“, which takes the visitors on a reflective journey through Jerusalem by following the route of tram number 1, crossing and connecting the various „Jerusalems“.
In „L´année dernière à Jersualem“ the artist is describing a stroll through the city of Jerusalem. Subjective memories concerning the sense of smell enfold a assiciative and symbolic bouquet of the Holy city, center of three religions. Such evoking the aura of the very place of different cultures.
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2008Scent Lab ViennaSmellscapes

Trust Room

by Jeanette Müller – Muscat, Oman (SoL Global Forum)

©Jeanette Müller

For this project at the intersection of applied sociopolitical utopia and conceptual art I developed an all natural scent diffused in a huge tent, placed in front of the Hilton, Muscat.

The aim was to create an overall feel good-atmosphere, which effects calmness, strength and clarity and helps the international participants to get into a grounded and confident mood before heading to their presentations, conference panels and discussions.

Jeanette Müller / Trust Room

2019Scent Lab ViennaSmellscapes

Change Was Our Only Chance

by Time´s up

Setup: “Change Was Our Only Chance” by Time´s Up

For this project by the artists´collective Time´s Up Paul Divjak was invited to develop an olfactory scenographic approach and create an experimental, dystopian scentscape. The result was an irritating bouquet of a futuristic harbor breeze, defined by muddy waters, wet wooden notes, and sweet rotten Asian flowers. A subtile but smelly trip to the year 2047. [Phase 1 of an experiment / collaborative work in progress]

AIL – Angewandte Innovation Lab – Franz-Josefs-Kai 3 1010 Wien, Vienna

02.09.2019 - 27.09.2019

In these times of fundamental change, this mix of installation and process wants to make you “want for the future”. The future perspective into the present makes it clear that the future for us (humans) will only be experienced if we introduce changes today.

An possible future is sensually experienced through a physical narrative, a form of immersive environment, explored in the enveloping spatial arrangement, in the here and now, in a curious and playful process.

Possible futures fuel passion to boldly explore and popularize the complexity of our time. Possible futures are demystified and stripped of anxiety. Uncertain future scenarios are no longer terrifying, because in that future we see that people in the past had understood: “Change our our only chance.”

We look forward to working with the lecturers, researchers and students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Applied Innovation Laboratory AIL in this project of exhibition and discussion, workshop and exploration.

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