»Kultur denken. Season 8 Episode 3: OLFAC with Hsuan L. Hsu

Sensory historians raise difficult questions about the viability of
recovering or even reconstructing past scents and smellscapes. How
might we understand odorous substances as a kind of material
archive bearing traces of historical patterns of extraction,
sensory labor, circulation, consumption, and interpretation while
also intimating other possibilities: ecologies that exceed the
world-making logics of racial and colonial capitalism? 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