Smelling the Multiverse:
Activating the Somatics of Scent for World-BuildingCo-facilitated with lee wilmoth: a somatic foray into the agential power of scent for worlding. Participants will engage in practices of world-building through olfactive and embodied engagement. We will leverage somatics and scent as portals for activating more liberatory futures. Optional scent package add-on includes four fragrance samples sent to your home.
If this workshop is outside of your budget and you’d like to attend, please contact us for additional pricing options.
12.14.24 | 3-6pm ET | Zoom
OPEN LAB: Sympoietic Breath
Sympoietic Breath invites a deeper awareness of how smells reveal our embeddedness in systems of ecological collapse and emergence. With one inhale, our body awakens to an incorporated cosmos. Ancient molecular exchanges, traces of industry, traces of plant breath, and traces of decaying life all transit through the pleura of our lungs. Odorant molecules also join in, entering the continuous lubricated movement of our breaths. These smelly compounds reveal the ever-enfolding complexities of air, allowing us to decode its composition through our olfactory bulbs and opening us up to intelligences at the scale of the invisible. As such, our sense of smell – animated by the breath – can be activated as a collaborative sensemaking tool for an ever-shifting planet. Participants will be introduced to ecological and olfactory terminology and will be guided through an olfactive exercise to help us put collaborative breathing and smelling into practice. OPEN LAB invites artists and scholars to facilitate theoretical discussions and embodied workshops, providing a platform for practice-based inquiry and creative exchange.
This program will take place virtually via Zoom. Auto-generated captions will be available.Hosted by Center for Performance
Research
10.9.24 | 6.30-8pm ET | Zoom
Somatic SmellscapingSomatic Smellscaping is a course that weaves together scent chemistry, somatic exercises, and the basics of scent composition in order to give participants an entryway into sensing the world and their soma through smell. We will study the molecular overlaps of all kinds of species and matter to understand how, at a molecular level, we are intimately connected to Earth and oneness in ways we may not be privy to in our occularcentric society. We will breathe together, observe interspecies kinship through odorant molecules, observe our own bodies in new ways, learn about materials and extraction, and share tools for working with scents. The course will merge scientific knowledge with meditation practice and etheric principles to help us weave together new material-ephemeral understandings of our world through scent and invite you to begin an olfactory practice. The modality will be online, with a lecture-based and conversational approach and incorporate meditation and remote smelling exercises throughout. This class will be held virtually.Hosted by Abrons Art Center + The School of Making Thinking
10.5.23-10.26-23 | Zoom