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This sensory trio of vignettes features three acts: from a fragrant lecture on architectural aura, a surrealist scent-tagged auction of priceless goods, to a cake-piped pas de deux on a frosted human body in motion. With Halston Bruce, Hannah Marie Marcus, Kelly Delany and Meg Paradowski

The Smell of Pantone 12-2036 is a performative lecture on the life and work of Luis Barragán by Halston Bruce that examines the legacy of Mexico’s most celebrated modern architect through the lens of imposed memory by evoking his cultural significance and aesthetic vision through the medium of scent, drawing out the mythic aura that surrounds his persona through fragrances of wet clay, arid air, carpet sealant, horse stables, religion, and of course the fictitious smell of the iconic pink that adorns his buildings. The event will also address the controversial history of his archive, offering a critical reflection on authorship, access, and memory in contemporary architectural discourse.

Commodity Exchange is a no-money estate auction, with fragrant strings attached by Hannah Marie Marcus, who continues a project from her spring solo show at Olfactory Art Keller, in which she comes to long-term contractual agreements for scent-specific dialogue with potential custodians of objects from her recently deceased mother’s estate. A confabulatory scented estate sale and ritual reckoning of value.

Adorn is a durational performance by artist Kelly Delany and choreographer Megan Paradowski that transforms Paradowski’s body into a living dessert, inviting audiences to engage with themes of adornment, desire, and decay through interactive icing and cake. As intricate decoration unravels into smudged chaos, the performance culminates in a visceral display of disintegration—melting icing, crumbling cake, and sweating skin—evoking the fleeting nature of beauty and the consumption of the body.