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SUMMARY:Opening at IAO Gallery: A toxin threatens\, but it also beckons (in person)
DESCRIPTION:RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-at-iao-gallery-a-toxin-threatens-but-it-also-beckons-tickets-2002102855536?keep_tld=true\n\n–\n\n\nFor A toxin threatens\, but it also beckons\, Chilean artist agustine zegers questions the aliveness of everyday toxins and our bodily porosity to them through the lens of single-use plastics. \nWithin the exhibition\, by-products of fossil fuels including polymers\, lab-synthesized odorants\, and polyethylene are fragmented and recontextualized through visual and olfactory means. \n“Plastic brings a noxious pleasure into our everyday lives\, one that binds us with extractivism through its protective sheen\,” zegers says. \nThese small-scale works expand upon the desire and abjection of the polymers that surround and compose us. Post-consumer plastics are filled with fragrance that resembles the noxious smellscapes of petroleum extraction. \nA toxin threatens\, but it also beckons borrows its title from theorist Mel Y. Chen’s essay “Toxic Animacies\, Inanimate Affections\,” which delves into the dynamics of human-generated toxicity and biopolitics—the connection between life and political power to govern individuals and populations. \nA version of this text was originally written by curator Denny Mwaura\, who produced the first iteration of this exhibition for UIC Gallery 400. \nThis event is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view from November 6 – December 18\, 2026. \n\n\nAbout the Artist \nagustine 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. \nLearn more: agustinezegers.com | speculativescent.com \nAbout IAO Gallery\nThe Institute for Art and Olfaction’s gallery is devoted to exhibitions\, performances\, installations and other expressions that make use of or engage with the medium of scent. The space includes a dedicated 154 square foot room within the IAO\, and two window galleries that face the pedestrian street\, Chung King Road. \n— \nImage Credits: Jonas Mikosch Müller-Ahlheim; agustine zegers
URL:https://artandolfaction.com/events/opening-at-iao-gallery-a-toxin-threatens-but-it-also-beckons/
LOCATION:The Institute for Art and Olfaction\, 932 Chung King Rd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States
CATEGORIES:IAO Gallery,In Person Event
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SUMMARY:Olfactory Meditation for End Times (online)
DESCRIPTION:Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/olfactory-meditation-for-end-times-online-tickets-2001027039742?keep_tld=true\n\n–\n\n\nAir 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. \nOlfactory 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. \nThis 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/ \n  \n\n\nABOUT agustine zegers \nagustine zegers is a Chilean olfactory artist and student of molecular biopolitics. Their work invites gaseous becomings that proliferate communion with planetary toxicity. \nThey 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. \nagustine directs Speculative Scent Lab: a para-academic laboratory for experimental fragrance education and ideation. \nLearn more: agustinezegers.com | speculativescent.com \n  \nATTENDANCE AND REFUND POLICY \nThis 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. \n+ Learn more about how we teach and our community guidelines here: https://artandolfaction.com/newcomers/. \n+ We will upload the class recording after the end of the session\, and share it for 14 days with attendees. This video is view-only\, and expires at the end of the 14 day window. \n+ Unfortunately\, we cannot offer refunds or credit for this class. Note also that event tickets are non-transferable. \nImage credits: Miriam Jakob and Jana Unmüßig; augustine zegers.
URL:https://artandolfaction.com/events/olfactory-meditation-for-end-times-online/
LOCATION:On Zoom
CATEGORIES:Education,Online Event
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