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

Olfactory Ecologies in the Past Conditional 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