Clara Muller: Environmental Enmeshments
Channel: The Institute for Art and Olfaction
Date: 2020-08-06

Clara Muller speaks at the 4th Annual Experimental Scent Summit, presenting "Enviromental Enmeshments: Eco-olfactory Art Addressing Pollution".

This talk will explore how olfactory artworks can address the pollution of air and water and overcome the main challenges of environmental communication by weaving together bodies and ecologies. They say an image is worth a thousand words. Might a scent be worth a thousand images?

Curator, critic and art historian with a background in literature, Clara Muller is pursuing research on the politics of breathing in contemporary art, and the diversity of art practices using scent as a medium. She has been a writer for the French olfactory magazine NEZ since 2016.

More information at https://www.nez-larevue.fr/author/cmuller/

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ABOUT ESS
A friendly, relaxed and conversational meeting of olfactory artists, the Experimental Scent Summit is an annual opportunity for participants to share their work while openly discussing the challenges of working with scent. All this and more in an unrestrained, non-competitive, supportive environment. ESS is a program presented by The Institute for Art and Olfaction and Smell Lab.