Aller au contenu principal

GATES Evening talk - An olfactory encounter

Conférence

Le 3 décembre 2024

GATES Evening talk - An olfactory encounter - Helen Paris

As part of the GATES project, an evening talk will be presented by Helen PARIS, Artistic Researcher at Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kningdom and MaCI Distinguished Research Fellow. She will collaborate with Erika Wicky, Art Historian & Junior Professor Chair 'Olfactions' at UGA (ARSH-LARHRA).

Please join Helen Paris and Érika Wicky on a fascinating journey into the elusive and ephemeral world of art and scent. This presentation aims to explore the rich connection between smell and creativity.

Dr Paris’s research explores the shared ephemerality of smell and live performance. On the Scent is a site-specific performance researched at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India, exploring the connections between the sense of smell and memory, and how olfaction can be harnessed as a generative tool in the creation and production of live performance. The intimate smell-based performance set in houses toured extensively for over a decade and has been performed in 14 different countries. It has generated an olfactory archive of hundreds of global ‘smell memories’ collected from audience experiences. While Dr Wicky’s research explores the history of the smell of paint from the 18th to the 20th century. It was a toxic odor, widely feared and present in many households. However, for artists, the scent of paint evoked the studio, its atmosphere, and the pleasure of creation. It not only stimulated their creativity but also deepened their understanding of the pictorial material. Although the relationship between health, art, and the sense of smell has undergone significant changes, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, its origins can be partly traced back to the painter's studio.


Helen Paris is artistic director of Curious theatre. Curious has produced interdisciplinary devised performance since 1997 at venues and festivals including the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, International Theatre Festival, Taiwan, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, London’s Cultural Olympiad, the Sydney Opera House and the Edinburgh Festival. From 2010-2018 Dr Paris was a professor of performance at Stanford University. Paris is a novelist, published by Penguin, represented by Greene&Heaton, London. 

Érika Wicky received her PhD in Art History (2011; University of Montréal, Canada) and has pursued postdoctoral research in Canada and Belgium. During two European fellowships in France (EURIAS, 2018–2019 and Marie Sklodowska-Curie IF, 2019–2021), she investigated the history of olfactory culture (18th–20th century), a topic on which she has published widely and co-organized several international conferences including Mediality of Smells (University of Oxford, 2018), resulting in an eponymous edited collection (2022), and the forthcoming The Perfumer: The Evolution of a Figure since the Renaissance based on a conference at the Centre de recherche du Château de Versailles (2021). She is a member of the board of the Société d’études romantiques et dix-neuvièmistes and a member of the scientific committee of the Osmothèque, The World’s Perfume Archive.
 

 

Funded by the French government's Programme d'Investissement Avenir and implemented by ANR France 2030

https://maci.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/sites/default/files/Mediatheque/bandeau%202%20financeurs%202.JPG

Date

Le 3 décembre 2024
Complément date

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Localisation

Complément lieu

Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation
Room 002 (Ground Floor)
Zoom : Link
Station Gabriel Fauré - MUSE

Admission


Free admission subject to availability

Contact

humanitiesfellowshipsatuniv-grenoble-alpes.fr (humanitiesfellowships[at]univ-grenoble-alpes[dot]fr)

Publié le 20 novembre 2024

Mis à jour le 26 novembre 2024