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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2012

The whiteout of smell: experiencing and exhibiting aesthetic epiphanies

Anette Stenslund
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This paper is about apprehending atmosphere through multi-sensous experiences. Auto-ethnographic field studies undertaken in an operation ward will demonstrate how I experienced the ambiance with the help of my nose, as a foundational atmosphere against which smell-epiphanies threw me back and forth through time and space. These experiential leaps had an intrinsically multi-sensory character, and I argue that smell cannot be disentangled from a broader sensuous experience. I propose a cross-reading of a number of thinkers as inspiration for translating these observations to exhibition making, in particular when describing aesthetic effects I let my work inspire by Martin Heidegger and Roland Barthes. I suggest that multi-sensous curatorial work can bring people closer to atmosphere.
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halshs-00745526 , version 1 (25-10-2012)

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Anette Stenslund. The whiteout of smell: experiencing and exhibiting aesthetic epiphanies. Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012, Sep 2012, Montreal, Canada. pp.641-646. ⟨halshs-00745526⟩
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