These perfumes are not meant to be worn, but to be smelled for triggering your memories, emotions, and imaginations. Open the cap, wait for 15 seconds so that the alcohol evaporates, and let the smell enter your nose from the stick. The smells are manually extracted from the materials by the artist.
first release: Jan. 19, 2008
HOW TO ORDER
(1) Worldwide: direct order, 35 Euro ex. shipping cost. Shipping by normal post (thinner than 3cm). Contact
(2) in Japan: 5,400 YEN ex. shipping cost, distributed by Inframince contact(at)inframince.jp
7 Smells – an olfactive art project by Maki Ueda On the request by EG | PC to distill the essence of the dance company, Ueda is exploring new ways in her olfactory research, for the first time using fabrics. On her part, the Japanese enriches the ever developing scent culture of the dance company. Her work forms a crucial step in the realization of a genuine perfume that will for the first time ever translate a choreographic concept into an essence.
For Maki Ueda, the starting point is the sweat of the dancers collected in the fabrics of the costumes by EG | PC designer Clifford Portier. The metaphor of the sweat is strongly intertwined with the essence of human movement. Portier’s designs constitute active elements within the works of the choreographers where they even lead a life of their own: time and again they are worn until they are worn out. The sweat residues in the costume fabrics testify to the past exertions of the dancers, as scented fingerprints of spent energy.
The perception of the EG | PC scents commences a mental journey in time to that lost, evaporated moment of creation of a danced performance: the scents remind us of the energy that is involved in constructing a dance creation, or recalls to the present the physical exertions that occurred during the performances. Never concrete. After all, motion and scent share that elusive character. Limited edition
7: risorgimento for purgatorio – magazine (EN/NL/FR)
Pretext. Image. Scent. Text. And context. A synergy of various artistic energies clustered around the theme of purgatory. That is what the [purgatorio] magazine, closely linked with the EG | PC performances [purgatorio] POPOPERA and [purgatorio] IN VISIONE, has to offer. The work of the choreographers and the artistic team feeds the essence of the magazine. In its turn, the magazine perfumes the creation process as an interactive forum. A purifying reciprocity.
Art director: Isabelle Vigier With contributions by: Arnon Grunberg, Levi van Veluw, Maki Ueda, Gérard Mayen, Johan Reyniers, Bart Boone, Pasquale Martini and René van Peer.
Published by Emio Greco | PC in close cooperation with art director and artist, Isabelle Vigier. Available in Dutch, English and French. ISBN 978-90-810813-4-4
olfacto = olfactory, the sense of smellscape = denoting a specified type of scene
Olfactoscape is a 3m diameter space created with a curtain. The walls are invisiblly “painted” with smells.
OLFACTOSCAPE is a word that I made up, consisting of OLFACTO (= olfactory) and SCAPE (= scene). Let’s observe an olfactory landscape with our nose, like a dog. Close your eyes, walk and sniff. Some scents come closer to you, while others fade away. Is there any scent that attracts you, or that makes you want to approach? This is a research project of searching for the boundaries and possibilities of our sense of smell.
Japanese people have a unique sense for the scents in nature. They appreciate the scents of the season as if viewing the landscape. They feel tipsy for the sweet scents under the cherry blossoms in the early spring night, and they feel the autumn for the scents of osmanthus. OLFACTOSCAPE is meant for experiencing such olfactory attitude. The selection of the scents illustrates this Japanese sensitivity to nature.
This work was initially developed with the support of INFRAMINCE, Inc (www.inframince.jp) and PANTALOON (www.pantaloon.jp).
DEVELOPMENT
- hinoki
- camphor
- lily of the valley
- cherry blossoms
- wild rose
- forest with fallen leaves
- ginger
- yuzu
- matsutake
- wild lily
- cinnamon
- grass
etc.
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