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Smelling the World
Alessandro Gandolfi
13 Feb 2025 02:03 pm
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Our sense of smell is often seen as less important than sight and hearing but its power to evoke a past experience and trigger strong emotional responses is equal, if not stronger, than the other senses; and that's before considering the absolutely vital evolutionary function smell has in warning of spoiled food and other harmful indicators like smoke while enhancing taste and steering appetite. ~~Smell also plays a fundamental part in human social interaction and sexual behaviour and is a powerful connection with the outside world. A host of smells, aromas and perfumes are all around us and condition our lives, our experiences, our health and our memories. Smells can reach directly into our emotional interior, triggering long lost passions and anxieties. ~~Our sense of smell is also a massive boon for the perfumes and toiletry industry, estimated to be worth around 30 billion dollars worldwide, and the global advertising campaigns that promote its wares. ~~During the Covid pandemic an exponential rise in cases of anosmia and parosmia, the loss of smell and or distortions of smell respectively, drove a significant boost in research into smell as a result of hundreds of thousands of people becoming aware of the importance of smell in daily existence. ~~Alessandro Gandolfi took this notion as his theme in exploring how, where and to what effect we use our sense of smell to navigate through our multi-sensory world.
La Bestia
Mads Nissen
11 Feb 2025 02:16 pm
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Every year, millions of Latin Americans set out for the United States, driven by the hope of a better future.~~Migration, both legal and illegal, has become a central issue in U.S. politics and President Trump's harsh rhetoric, promising tougher policies and mass deportations allowed him to secure his return to the White House.~~Under intense pressure from the U.S., including the threat of punishing san Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2015-01-04 16:30:50 A new exhibition Saltwater Country is set to open at the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht on January 11, showing a great diversity of art produced by sixteen artists from Queensland's coastal regions in north-east Australia. They have...» Read More Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-12-28 16:23:37 No one could call it a stunning year for Indigenous art - with the market delicate and the product, perhaps in response, not leaping any dramatic hurdles. No one, that is, apart from Danie Mellor and Tony Albert, the two...» Read More Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-12-24 11:38:18 Kwementyaye Taylor (c 1940 – 12/2014) Watercolourist Peter Taylor has died in a car accident. Peter Taylor was born into a large family at Oodnadatta in South Australia. His father worked as a station hand in the Central Desert region, and...» Read More Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-12-18 15:08:56 A delightful project has emerged from the National Library in Canberra and the University of Newcastle's Wollotuka Institute of Aboriginal Studies. “True Light and Shade” takes the early 19th Century artworks of that infamous forger Joseph Lycett and sets them...» Read More Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-12-09 15:18:51 The recent AGM of the Indigenous Art Code has been singularly unreported by mainstream press. Thank heavens for the specialists like AAD! For we can report a new CEO to replace John Oster and a new Chair to replace Ron...» Read More Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-12-02 12:36:41 When I first arrived in Australia, an early writing commission was to preview the expat playwright Ray Matthew's wonderful outback play, 'Spring Song'. I Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2015-01-04 16:30:50 A new exhibition Saltwater Country is set to open at the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht on January 11, showing a great diversity of art produced by sixteen artists from Queensland's coastal regions in north-east Australia. They have...» Read More Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-12-24 11:38:18 Kwementyaye Taylor (c 1940 – 12/2014) Watercolourist Peter Taylor has died in a car accident. Peter Taylor was born into a large family at Oodnadatta in South Australia. His father worked as a station hand in the Central Desert region, and...» Read More Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-12-18 15:08:56 A delightful project has emerged from the National Library in Canberra and the University of Newcastle's Wollotuka Institute of Aboriginal Studies. “True Light and Shade” takes the early 19th Century artworks of that infamous forger Joseph Lycett and sets them...» Read More Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-12-09 15:18:51 The recent AGM of the Indigenous Art Code has been singularly unreported by mainstream press. Thank heavens for the specialists like AAD! For we can report a new CEO to replace John Oster and a new Chair to replace Ron...» Read More Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-12-02 12:36:41 When I first arrived in Australia, an early writing commission was to preview the expat playwright Ray Matthew's wonderful outback play, 'Spring Song'. It captured country values and setting perfectly – so well, in fact, that he was whisked off...» Read More Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-11-26 09:47:24 The Australian newspaper's galumphing headline writers had a field-day last Friday with their ultra-bold claim: 'Gallery Gabri Jean Baptiste Apuatimi is dancing in a Mexican restaurant one km from the White House and gives me the strongest arm-squeeze-and-kiss I've ever felt - the culture warriors are in Washington D.C. and I’m with ten of them for a week to celebrate the opening of their exhibition at the Katzen Arts Center. So how does 'Culture Warriors' fit within the history of US exhibitions of Australian indigenous art? Works by indigenous Australian artists were first shown as 'Art’ in 1946 at New York’s Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) in an exhibition called 'Art Of Australia 1788-1941'. This could seem an unexpected venue because of the associations of MOMA’s 1984 exhibition 'Primitivism in 20th Century Art'. However MOMA should be recognised as being the first venue in America to show Australian indigenous art as fine art rather than as ethnography. Its aim as stated by Margaret Preston in the 1946 catalogue was to be an exhibition: ‘which starts with the work of the aborigines, and ends with the influence of their work as a basis of a new outlook for a national art for Australia’. The assimilation implied by this statement is impossible to reconcile with the distinctive styles developed by culture warriors such as Judy Watson, who on our trip scoured the Thomas Jefferson drawings at the University of Virginia Museum for appropriation into new work. So the tables are turned yet the outrageous reality is that 'Culture Warriors', this multi-million dollar travelling exhibition will only be seen in one university museum in America before travelling back to Australia. In the American press throughout the 20th Century Australian indigenous artefacts tend to be compared to Native American culture, though urban Australian artists are actually closer to the American civil rights movement. Destiny Deacon installed an eerie room full of golliwog dolls and racist frights familiar to Americans. Y
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