Olfactory artist and experimental filmmaker Klara Ravat presents the workshop The Scent of Amsterdam: Distilling Odors of an Urban Landscape. Over the course of 4 hours you will collectively explore the neighbourhood of Mediamatic Biotoop, visit aromatic urban spaces and learn how to distill a scented memory of Amsterdam.
14:00 - 15:00Introduction - What is smell and how to distill scent.
15:00 - 16:00Smell Walk 16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break (not included) 16:30 - 17:00Discussion of findings - What did we pick, why and what to distill? 17:00 - 18:00Distillation
What will you do
After meeting at Mediamatic, Klara will start with a theoretical introduction on how smell works and introduce you to the different types of distillation processes. We will then take a short walk around Mediamatic’s neighbourghood, where Klara will guide us through specific urban aroma locations. In the meantime there is room to discuss and comment on our findings. The idea is to collect scented object that will later be distilled in Mediamatic’s Aroma Lab. Together we will distill a scented memory of Amsterdam which you will take home in the end.
For whom
This workshop is suitable for anyone interested in exploring Amsterdam in a different way. No prior knowledge required, however, participants are asked to bring a smelly object or substance that reminds them of Amsterdam.
Klara Ravat (Berlin, Germany)is an olfactory artist and an experimental filmmaker. After studying qualitative trend research in Barcelona, Klara moved to The Netherlands where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (ArtScience at The Royal Academy of Arts). At the same time she studied Psychology at the Open University of Catalonia. Klara is the co-founder of theSmell Lab, a community project that focuses on the investigation and practice of the art and science of the sense of smell. During 2016-2017 she is an artist in residency at Mediamatic and in 2017 she teamed up with the Intitution for Art and Olfaction to co-produce the first Experimental Scent Summit, hosted in Berlin. By opposing the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice
Information
The Scent of Amsterdam Distilling Odors of an Urban Landscape with Klara Ravat Sunday 3 September, 14:00-18:00 Ticket: €38,50,- Students* / €55 Regular *Please bring proof of your VAT or a student card.
