olfactory meditation for end times10.11
2-3pm CT
Zoom
Air is a teacher of our porosity: we are intextricably webbed with the ills and the joys of every affective and microscopic shift of Earth’s atmosphere. Structures of power, community, and pleasure swirl as breezes and effluvia. Our lungs expand to receive these complex airs, allowing us to be recomposed by particles, odorant molecules, and remnants of larger planetary shifts.

Olfactory Meditation for End Times is an offering that taps into this interconnectivity by offering dedicated space to breathe and smell into this troubled moment—activating our somas as mediators and healers of a catastrophic present. This one-hour class is offered at a sliding scale via Zoom. Auto-generated captions will be available and a recording will be provided after class for those who can’t make it synchronously. 




introduction to critical olfaction5.7, 5.14 + 5.21.2025 
6-8pm CT
Zoom

Sold OutSmells are dually nourishing and noxious, granting us access to the subtle dimensions of affect, geopolitical and environmental shifts, and aberrant social orders. This class intends on activating an awareness of the underbelly of scent—studying olfaction critically from a decolonial ecologically and socially engaged lens in order to unravel all it has to teach us.

This class will be held as three 2-hour modules throughout the month of May, with recordings available asynchronously to all those who participate. Three tiers of sliding scale pricing are available. Please choose the option that you feel best reflects your income level, structural financial constraints, and economic privileges. Read more here.


smelling the multiverse
activating the somatics of scent for world-building

12.14.2024
3-6pm ET Zoom

Sold Out
Co-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.

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speculative scent
olfactory presentation with agar olfactory
Hosted by Two Two 

11.10.2024
11-12:30 PT
An open-format olfactory engagement and presentation, with an emphasis on ecologically-engaged and speculative practice. Participants will learn about the lab’s speculative scent design process, learn key olfactory terms, and be guided through a smell journey that encompasses agar olfactory's body of work and selected raw perfumery materials.


OPEN LAB: 
sympoietic breath
Hosted by Center for Performance 
Research

10.9.2024 6.30-8pm ET Zoom
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.


somatic smellscaping

Hosted by Abrons Art Center + The School of Making Thinking

10.5.23-10.26-23
Zoom
Somatic 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.



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