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[venue] Reed Arts Week 2018 (Reed College), Portland, U.S.A
[curator] Aersen Lease, artistic director for the Reed Arts Week
[Premier] November 15th, 2018
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“Tangible Scents” is an open-air installation which uses Maki Ueda’s original method of “de-and re-construction in the air” to decode on the scent of rose. The five major components of the this scent are individually infused into vats of soap, which will each be poured into five different bubble machines. You can deconstruct rose into its component scents by poking the bubbles, or immerse yourself in the total scent.
Used Scents:
(1)Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol,
(2)Geraniol,
(3)Phenyl Acetic Acid,
(4)Rose Oxide
(5)Aldehyde C9
Since the late 2017 I’ve been questioning myself “how to make scents more tangible and understandable for audience?”.
I picked “rose” as a theme because it’s universal. There’s no “typical rose scent” but it’s very diverse, from the sweet one to the fresh one, and that fact tells us that “rose” is a concept.
I’ve been experimenting with different medium as candle, perfume, and soap bubbles on this theme. The form of incident varies from workshop to installation.
Tangible Scents is an installation in open air, created as a result of such experimentations. My method here is “de-and re-construction of the scent of rose“. By deconstructing the rose scent in components and then reconstructing them together in the air, its concept becomes more transparent and tangible for the audience.
Five scents, the major components of the scent of rose, are impregnated to soap bubble independently.
(1) Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol (fresh, sweet, floral, sake-like)
(2) Geraniol (fresh, watery, citrusy)
(3) Phenyl Acetic Acid (sour, floral)
(4) Rose Oxide (fresh, metalic)
(5) Aldehyde C9 (fatty, green, cucumber-like)
They are to be diffused with the machines independently.
– By the mixing nature of scent molecules, the field of “the smell of rose” is created, as if the composition is done in the space.
– By being poked, a bubble breaks, and it emits the scent. – You can clearly identify the scent, because the five scents are quite different.
– You can also immerse yourself in the flow of bubbles and just feel the rose.
– You can zoom-in and out with the olfaction.
– Timing is controlled with remote controllers.
– Concentration is adjusted by each scent. Key words:
– tangible scents
– composition in the space
– immersive olfactory experience
– zoom-in and out with olfaction – de- and reconstruction of the scent of rose
EXPERIMENT 1: MINI PERFORMANCE
[organizer] 白井希／KYO-SHITSU https://www.ranagram.com/kyo-shitsu/
[venue] WOMB TOKYO
[date] 2017年11月
使用香料:
(1) Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol
(2) Citronellol
EXPERIMENT 2: CANDLE INSTALLATION
[title] 香り”X”の分解と再構築
[venue] アートホテル石垣島13Fスカイバンケット＆バー「カプリコン」https://www.art-ishigakijima.com/news/detail.php?id=187
[curator] 高嶺智子
[premier] 2017年11月29日（水）～12月17日（日）
いくつかの香りをバランスよく組み合わせることを「調香」といいますが、この空間で何をやっているかというと、「Xの香り」の立体的な調香です。
この花自体をガスクロマトグラフィーという分析器にかけると、以下のような分子が検出されます。Xの香気成分の重要なものです。香り別にキャンドルを作り、個数を調整しました。空間で混ざり調和して、Xの香りとなります。Xを分解して、再構築しています。
さて、ここで問題です。Xは何でしょう。
（個別に香りを嗅ぐには、その周りの空気を手であおりながら嗅ぎ入れてください。火を覗き込まないでください。）
(1) phenyl ethyl alcohol / ピンク / Xの中心となる甘いハチミツのような香り
(2) geraniol / トルコブルー / 甘くみずみずしく、フローラルな香り
(3) citronellol / イエロー / レモングラスのようなさわやかな香り
(4) linalool / オレンジ / キンモクセイのような、甘くこっくりした香り
(5) euginol / パープル / クローブ（丁子）のようなスパイシーでな香り
(6) rose oxide / ワインレッド / ちょっと草のようなグリーンな香り
(7) aldehyde C9 / グリーン / ちょっとカメムシのような香り
EXPERIMENT 3: WORKSHOP
[organizer] 渡辺仁史 (NPOしまのようちえん)
[venue] 石垣市やちむん館
[premier] 2018年8月
使用香料:
(1) phenyl ethyl alcohol
(2) citronellol
(3) linalool
(4) rose oxide
(5) aldehyde C9