Olfactory Meditation for End Times (online)
Air is a teacher of our porosity: we are inextricably webbed with the ills and the joys of every affective and material shift of Earth’s atmosphere. Structures of power and communality swirl as breezes and effluvia. Our lungs expand to receive these complex airs, allowing us to be recomposed by extant particles, odorant molecules, and traces of planetary transference.
Olfactory Meditation for End Times is an offering that taps into this interconnectivity by offering dedicated space to breathe and smell into our troubled present—thinking and practicing with olfactive engagement as a portal for microcosmic communion.
This workshop is presented in conjunction with A toxin threatens, but it also beckons by agustine zegers at the IAO Gallery. The exhibition will be on view from November 6 – December 18, 2026. For more information on the exhibition, visit: https://artandolfaction.com/exhibitions/
ABOUT agustine zegers
agustine zegers is a Chilean olfactory artist and student of molecular biopolitics. Their work invites gaseous becomings that proliferate communion with planetary toxicity.
They have scented and exhibited internationally at venues such as the Venice Biennale, Somerset House, Kunst Haus Wien, Gallery 400, 52 Walker, Prairie, Olfactory Art Keller, and Sharjah Art Foundation. They have lectured at La Escuela, Centre for Sensory Studies, Dia:Chelsea, XE Institute, and Museo de Arte Contamporáneo, among others.
agustine directs Speculative Scent Lab: a para-academic laboratory for experimental fragrance education and ideation.
Learn more: agustinezegers.com | speculativescent.com
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This is an online class that will take place on Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent by email approximately 24 hours before the class. Lest this email end up in your spam folder, please be sure to add hello@artandolfaction.com and noreply@order.eventbrite.com to your address book.
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Image credits: Miriam Jakob and Jana Unmüßig; augustine zegers.
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