»Kultur denken. Season 8 Episode 2: OLFAC with Brandon Woolf

Garlic’s notorious smell—lingering on our breath and at our
tables—has historically been weaponized by colonial and hegemonic
powers as a means of othering and oppression. What might olfaction,
and odor more broadly, offer as a lens ( a nostril?) through which
to interrogate socio-political relations? How and when do we
abandon our fellow citizens and living things because of their
odor? What do we risk by actually smelling each other? What stinks
about our civic lives, and how could they smell more like
Bärlauchsuppe? The OLFAC Symposium, held in December 2025 at the
ifk in Vienna, was organized by Silke Felber, Freda Fiala, and
Julia Ostwald as part of the ERC Consolidator Project OLFAC. More
information is available at olfac.kunstuni-linz.at. Interviews/
Redaktion/ Moderation: Katharina Rahn Sound Editing: Paul Jones