Hexagram | CIAM is pleased to collaborate with Hexagram-Concordia\u2019s Distinguished Speaker Series and the Conversations in Contemporary Art Series (Concordia University MFA Studio Arts) in welcoming internationally known smell artist and \u201cprofessional in-betweener\u201d Sissel Tolaas. <\/p>\n
What could happen when invisible information \u2013 such as smell molecules \u2013 is the starting point of acting, reacting and communicating? Smells are a very crucial component in the definition, understanding of and orientation to an environment. Smells surround us all the time. We breathe 23,040 times a day and move 12.5 cubic meters of air and with every breath smell molecules flood through our bodies. Even when we sleep we smell. Historical, sociological and religious reasons have pulled the contemporary human being into almost ignoring more than 1 % of his genes, and only education can revive these hidden capacities, since the hardware and software still function in the healthy human being, but only if consciously trained and used. There is a whole world to educate and a whole world to smell.<\/p>\n
Sissel Tolaas and Hexagram | CIAM\u2019s researchers
Jean D\u00e9carie (UQAM)
Fran\u00e7ois-Joseph Lapointe (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)
Erin Manning (Universit\u00e9 Concordia)
Mod\u00e9rateur : David Howes (Universit\u00e9 Concordia)<\/p>\n
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