Osmodrama: from the Greek osme (smell) and the ancient Greek dráma (plot), describes the performance of time-based olfactory art using the experimental scent-playing ‘organ’ Smeller 2.0, as well as the festival Osmodrama – Storytelling with Scents. The first version of Smeller was created in 1990 by the now Berlin-based Austrian artist

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who with his team continues with research and development of the project.

The Festival

Osmodrama – Storytelling with Scents, the first festival of kinetic scent performance took place from 15 July 2016 to 18 September 2016 in the St. Johannes Evangelist Church in the centre of Berlin. Visitors experienced different stagings of odour sequences. The program included readings, concerts, scent-synchronised films, workshops, panel discussions with international artists and cultural workers as well as researchers and scientists. Other contributors to the festival included

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, Julia Kissina, Nikola Madzirov, Hanns Hatt, Geza Schön, Stephen Crowe, Simon van der Geest,

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, Sam Auinger, Aisha Orazbayeva, Tom Jackson, Samuel Stoll, Filip Caranica and The Berlin Improvisers Orchestra. The festival Osmodrama – Storytelling with Scents was realized in cooperation with the

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, the Radialsystem V, by sponsors such as the

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and by crowdfunding.

Exhibitions

* 2012 – OK Center for Contemporary Art at OÖ Kulturquartier in Linz/Austria in the major exhibition „Sinnesrausch“ (Sensory Sensation) with allegedly 77k visitors in 3 months. The OÖ Kulturquartier and OK Center was coproducing the production, premiere and Beta-Testing of Smeller 2.0 in 2012. * 2016: ''Osmodrama'', St.-Johannes-Evangelist-Kirche, Auguststr. 90, Berlin (in cooperation with Radialsystem V and International Literaturefestival Berlin). * 2018: ''Osmodrama'', Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. „Quarter Autocomplete“ / Osmodrama via Smeller 2.0 Installation and Synosmy by Wolfgang Georgsdorf.

Osmodrama in the media

There is an increasing number of reports on Osmodrama internationally by broadcasters such as the

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(British Broadcasting Cooperation), the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Cooperation),

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, websites such as

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, perfume politics, JASTS (Japanese Association for the Study of Taste and Smell) and by print media such as

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and the

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Awards

On May 6, 2017, the US Institute for Art and Olfaction honored Osmodrama with the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scents. 2013: Outstanding Artist Award (by the Austrian Ministry of Culture) for Smeller 2.0.

References

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