The 2018 artistic directors of Reed Arts Week are enthralled to present this year’s festival: Sensation. This theme can be interpreted in a plethora of ways, including, but not limited to bodily, media-based, and religious sensations. We recognize that the art world often prioritizes our vision, and, through the theme of sensation, we are encouraging artists and patrons alike to challenge this axiomatic primacy of sight in exchange for an interest in collective, spiritual, and somatic resonance.
While the title of our festival employs the word “art,” we are emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of Sensation. Both student and professional artists will appropriate campus as stage and scenery for poetry readings, dance pieces, theatrical and other performance works, live music, and, of course, the display of visual art. Featured artists and performers include: international olfactory artist Maki Ueda; poet Marty McConnell; fashion designer Eda Yorulmazoglu; animator Eric Dyer; artist Stephanie Gervais; poet Esther Belin; photographer Parker Day; 11:Dance Co.; photographer DJ Meisner; and musical performers Marquii and DJ Manny Petty.
This year’s Reed Arts Week will take place from November 15 – November 18, 2018, on Reed College campus. While a group of Reed faculty initially introduced Reed Arts Week in 1990, the festival has come under the jurisdiction of students and this is the first year in which the annual event will be institutionally stewarded by the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery. All events are free and open to the public.
ガーデンに関しては、DiorがDomaine de Manonという荘園を使って、あるいはChanelがPegomasの荘園を使って、MIPの真似をしつつ、ステータスを高めようとしたとも考えられます。
学校で教わったもうひとつのこと。Rose du Mai や、Jasmin grandifolia など、グラースの土壌で品種改良された香水用の花は、他の産地のよりフランス産の方が品質が高いと、学生は教わります。ですが実際は、フランス産のローズもジャスミンも、市場にはまったく出回ってません。「自社畑所有の大きな会社が独占している」といった都市伝説も考えることができますが、単に高コストのためほとんど生産されていないのかもしれません。されていたとしても、実用のためではなく、単なるステータスのためのようですね。いずれにせよフランス産香料の希少価値を高める結果となり、やはりフランスにはかなわないんだなあと思いました。
とある友人のフランス人は、シャネル・ローズ生産者のファミリーの出身と聞いています。Domaine de Manon のような家柄かと想像されますが、現在は直接的な香料ビジネスを離れてしまったとのこと。グラースの生産者も生き残りが大変なのだと思います。
『Aroma & Floavor』展はジャパン・ハウスサンパウロとBase7 Cultural Project社による企画のもと、Bombril、全日本空輸株式会社・ユナイテッド航空、高砂香料工業株式会社、ブラデスコ保険によるスポンサーと、PROAC（文化活動プログラム）や文化促進法令に応じた施策の一つとして開催される。
A: 私はもともと大学で、マクルーハンに影響を受けた学問（環境情報学）を学んでおり、卒業後もメディア・アートやインタラクティブ・アートをやっていたので、匂いもアート表現のひとつの「メディウム」として捉えるというのは、ごく当たり前のことでした。なので、最初から、次の時代のアートとして意識的に取り組みました。記念すべき１作目は、様々なお茶やコーヒーの匂いを蒸留で抽出して「MENU FOR THE NOSE」という作品を作りました。
当時は olfactory art という言葉は一般的ではなく、自分の活動を表現する言葉を自分で考えました。最初はscent art あるいは smell art など簡単でわかりやすい表現を使っていましたが、そのうち私が興味あるのは匂いではなく嗅覚であることがわかってきて、 olfactory artist というふうに自己紹介するようになりました。（その時に、gmailのアカウントで、 olfactoryart というユーザー名を取りました）
じつは当時、メディア・アートの世界ではMITの周辺ですでに haptic art が成立していたので、その延長で olfactory art という言葉が思い浮かんだのです。私が突然メディア・アートから抜けて、電気を使わない超アナログな嗅覚アートをやりはじめたのに周囲は驚いていましたが、私には当時から、このアートフォームが現在のように発展するビジョンが描けていました。なので、冒険する価値はあると思ったのです。
Maki Ueda started her olfactory art course Smell and Art in 2009 at the ArtScience Interfaculty. In the course students learn a conceptual and abstract approach to the medium of smell. The use of smell goes beyond the representational use and focuses on its qualities and experience without a need for a narrative or context. The students are challenged to develop olfactory games using this approach. Furthermore, they learn chemical skills by extracting and composing smells to support their creations. The game format challenges our imagination: while we always have limited fragrance materials, we never stop thinking of new games. The Japanese traditional olfactory game Kodo is a good example of this.
Maki Ueda is an olfactory artist who explores olfaction with an abstract and conceptual approach. She was the World Technology Awards finalist in 2009 (category: art), and the Art and Olfaction Awards finalist in 2016 (Sadakichi Award). She is a guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, The Netherlands. Maki Ueda is currently based in Okinawa, Japan. www.ueda.nl
Course conception: Maki Ueda
Participating students: June Yu, Lauren Jetty Howells-Green, Kay Churcher, Sophia Bulgakova, Ana Oosting, Abel Fazekas, Ilia Lukovnikov, Vera Khvaleva, Sunna Svavarsdottir, Mischa Lind, Stefano Zucchini, Georgia Kosmatou, Koen de Groot, Tudor Ulrich, Anni Nops, ...and all the students participating in the past courses.
Course given at: ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, The Netherlands
MILAN— We are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2018 Art and Olfaction Awards, which we made public in a special press event at Esxence, in Milan, on April 5, 2018.
Awarded to just four perfumes, one experimental scent project and two special awards — the Aftel Award and the Contribution to Scent Culture — a year, The Art and Olfaction Awards are designed to raise public interest and awareness around new developments in independent perfumery. The Awards, established in 2014 by the Institute for Art and Olfaction, are given to outstanding creators in the categories of independent, artisan, and experimental perfume from across the globe, chosen for perfumes released in 2017.
The fifth annual Art and Olfaction Awards events will take place in a public ceremony at The Tabernacle. Continuing the tradition of holding the awards in unique locations in different perfume capitals of the world, the Tabernacleis a Grade II-listed building in Powis Square, Notting Hill, west London, England, built in 1887 as a church and converted into an arts center in the 1970s.
Each Art and Olfaction Award winner will receive The Golden Pear, which continues to cement its status as a prestigious achievement in the perfume world.
As with past years, our panel of esteemed judges includes luminaries from the perfume and art worlds. The members of the Art and Olfaction Awards 2018 jury include: Andy Tauer (Switzerland), Antonio Gardoni (Italy), Christopher Gordon (USA), Grant Osborne (UK), Harald Lubner (Germany), Josh Meyer (USA), Sarah McCartney (UK), Andreas Wilhelm (Switzerland), Bibiana Prival (USA), Dana El Masri (Canada), Dawn Spencer Hurwitz (USA), Matthias Janke (Germany), Ulrike Knöll (Germany), Spyros Drosopoulos (Netherlands), Cristiano Canali (France/Italy), Denyse Beaulieu (France), Helder Suffenplan (Germany), Jeanne Doré (France), Katie Puckrik (England), Luca Turin (Greece), Mark Behnke (USA), Ashraf Osman (Switzerland), Caro Verbeek (The Netherlands), Darin Klein (USA), Sarah Baker (England), Simon Niedenthal (Sweden)
Zoe Crosher (USA), Frederic Jacques (USA), Hall Newbegin (USA), Mandy Aftel (USA)
The Art and Olfaction Awards was founded in 2012 as an independent awards mechanism designed to celebrate innovation and excellence in artisan and independent perfume, and experimentation in scent within arts practices. The Art and Olfaction Awards are a program of The Institute for Art and Olfaction, a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Los Angeles, CA.
The Art and Olfaction Awards could not exist without the generous support of our partners at Lucky Scent / Scent Bar, Pochpac, Perfumers Apprentice, Esxence, Barrister and Mann, Aftelier Perfumes, Nez – La Revue Olfactive, Basenotes, ÇaFleureBon, AutumnSeventy, Perfumed Plume Awards.
The Institute for Art and Olfaction is a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Los Angeles, CA.The Institute for Art and Olfaction advances public and artistic engagement with scent.We do this by initiating and supporting arts projects that utilize the medium of scent, by providing accessible and affordable education in our experimental laboratory as well as in partnership with institutions and community groups, and by celebrating excellence in independent and artisan perfumery through our yearly award mechanism, The Art and Olfaction Awards.Through these efforts, we extend the world of scent beyond its traditional boundaries of appreciation and use.
