Anicka Yi

An ‘Olfactory Art Installation’ From an MIT-Trained Artist

"In the past, Ms. Yi has used smells to evoke memories of death, divorce, and denial. This time in Basel, she’s now channeling the idea of forgetting, with an exhibition-specific scent called Aliens and Alzheimer’s, brewed in tandem by the artist and perfumer Barnabé Fillion. The smell is infused in a book that holds transcripts of conversations with Ms. Yi on scent, ethnicity, and symbiotic microorganisms as well as essays from contributing authors."


Anicka Yi
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"Smell me", "Smell you later

"Of the five senses, sight and hearing are privileged in artistic endeavours, with touch, smell and taste often relatively disavowed. “Olfactory art” – art concerned with smell – is currently a relatively minor field."

Olfactory art makes scents – and who nose where it might lead us?

"It’s taking the nude self-portrait to the next level of intimacy, I wanted to create something completely visceral without any visuals — and that could only be experienced through the primary, primal senses."(Martynka Wawrzyniak)

"I was considering non-traditional ways in which artworks and audience experiences could create potent and celebratory festival memories. Scent and memory have long been known to be intertwined – the olfactory bulb is next to the limbic system, which houses long-term memory and emotion, which is why we can catch a whiff of campfire smoke and be instantly transported back to a childhood camping trip in quite a startling and immediate way."

Smell me

Smell Me Artist Transforms Body Odor Into Olfactory Self-Portrait

Smell Me, 2012

Smell you later

Smell You Later Grace Gamage & Olivia O’Donnell and Bill Noonan, curated by Katie Lenanton

  

Proust Phenomenon

"French novelist Marcel Proust knew all about the powerful effects of taste and smell on memory and emotion. His multi-volume “In Search of Lost Time,” written in the early 1900s, is based in part on childhood memories triggered by the taste and smell of a French cookie-sized cake, a petite madeleine, dipped in his cup of tea."


Taken from: What Proust’s Nose Knew


“The memory suddenly appears before my mind. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before church-time) my aunt Leonie used to give to me, dipping it first in her own cup of real or lime-flower tea’, leading him to the conclusion that ’When from a long-distant past nothing subsists … the smell and taste of things remain poised for a long time … and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”

Memory and Plasticity in the Olfactory System: From Infancy to Adulthood

The cookie- Proust

"Smells Ring Bells: How Smells Can Trigger Emotions and Memories"

"Incoming smells are first processed by the olfactory bulb, which starts inside the nose and runs along the bottom of the brain. The olfactory bulb has direct connections to two brain areas that are strongly implicated in emotion and memory:  the amygdala and hippocampus. Interestingly, visual, auditory (sound), and tactile (touch) information do not pass through these brain areas. This may be why olfaction, more than any other sense, is so successful at triggering emotions and memories."

Smells Ring Bells: How Smells Can Trigger Emotions and Memories