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In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

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Hartmann's scent concert - The Institute Of Art And Olfaction
Bennett Barbakow

2/01/14

Hartmann's scent concert - The Institute Of Art And Olfaction

The ill fated though heroic attempt by Sadakichi Hartmann to stage an olfactory concert in 1902 revealed a brilliant if rarified thinker ahead of his time. Even now this would be a radical and difficult undertaking which, despite subsequent technological advances could still fail spectacularly. However, The Institute Of Art And Olfaction are to be hugely commended for reviving the idea. For those lucky enough to have obtained tickets this will be an unprecedented  and fascinating experience. For the rest of us, well we wish the event every success and look forward to what I hope are rapturous accounts of a new and ground breaking creative enterprise.

Institute Of Art And Olfaction
"In India, the traditional method of greeting was to smell someone's head. Thus the vedas speak of the satisfaction fathers take in smelling the heads of their children after returning from an absence."
- Classen, Howes & Synnott, 1994, Aroma: The Cultural History Of Smell