The effect of odor is immediate. Smells arouse feelings in us, put us in moods, awaken recollections. They color the other senses and shape our perceptions more profoundly than we are aware. Scents create closeness and distance at the same time. They become imprinted on our memories and consolidate our experiences. And yet their existence in the world of three dimensions remains invisible, and the act of picking up a scent is fleeting. The publication OdorImmaterial Sculptures zooms in on the power of smells. Contributions from curators, artists, scientists, and scholars frame a variety of perspectives on this evanescent phenomenon, examining the olfactory sense and the qualities of the immaterial. Full-page plates conceived by the artists provide additional information, imagery, and contexts around the individual works, which put odor as an olfactory and spatial experience at the center of the engagement with art. The works operate between the poles of time and space, individual and community, consciousness and the subconscious, visibility and invisibility, the everyday and the miraculous, the sense of self and the perceptions of others, presence and absence, life and death. Artists : Jason Dodge, Carsten Höller, Koo Jeong A, Oswaldo Maciá, Teresa Margolles, Pamela Rosenkranz, Sissel Tolaas, Clara Ursitti, Luca Vitone

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Antonie Bierling studied psychology in Dresden. Since 2020, she has been researching the basics of odor perception as part of her doctorate in order to make this knowledge usable for the construction of electronic noses in the future. To this end, she is involved in the "Perceptronics" and "smellodi" projects, which bring together the disciplines of materials science, medicine and psychology in cooperation with TU Dresden, among others. Regine Dee works as a journalist. She studied English and sociology, lives in Hamburg and writes for various science magazines from there. Jim Drobnick is a critic, curator and associate professor of contemporary art and theory at OCAD University, Toronto. He has published on the visual arts, curating, performance, the senses and post-media practices in recent anthologies. Hanns Hatt is a German biologist and physician. He is a physiologist who works in the field of electrophysiology and olfactory research. Hanns Hatt has been a professor at the Faculty of Biology and holder of the Chair of Cell Physiology at the Ruhr University Bochum since 1992. Ilona Croy completed her doctorate, habilitation and licensure (TP) in Dresden. After several years of research in Sweden, she headed up research at Dresden Psychosomatics until 2021. She researches the neuronal basis with which we sniff and feel our fellow human beings, is fascinated by brains and is enthusiastic about large data sets. She enjoys explaining science in an understandable way and has received several awards for her commitment to teaching and supervision.