Haze State: Aroma Cartographies
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Reimagining history and urban context through a scent-story tableau. Haze State creates an imaginative environment that juxtaposes the past and present via a scent-story tableau. By creating a scent topography inspired from the Brooklyn (Bushwick) post-industrial landscape, this mock garden explores an often under-used sensory spectrum as creative medium. Haze State as an installation involves distributing urban-inspired scents by instantly “atomizing” or nebulizing various hydrosols (water-based perfumes) in a contained headspace. The headspace is an enclosed, translucent sphere that can emit and neutralize scents on command from a developed device called the Nebulizer Olfactory Simulation Emition system (NOSE) comprising a series solenoids, ultrasonic nebulizer devices and dc fans controlled via Arduino and sensors. Haze State is intended to present an alternative way of imagining history and by association memory, a sense of place to evoke conversations that only scent can engage. Participants are invited to experience the installation through the headspace where a scent cartography (a mixture of hydrosols) activates a dusty memory, nostalgia or visceral sensation. Hydrosols are custom-distilled using a similar biological process to create perfumes and other water based scents. List of Hydrosols Custom from Bushwick (East Williamsburg Post-Industrial landscape):
Inspired by the thriving post-natural neighborhood of Bushwick/East Williamsburg,Haze State proposes a scent-sory tableau of Bushwick’s past (Bushwick from Dutch name Boswijck means “little town in the woods”) intersecting with a cartography narrative of Bushwick’s present—the burgeoning factories/warehouses that crowds the industrial neighborhood. The headspace reflects both the green woods imaginary landscape while the presented artificial aroma inside the forest are a symbolic mix of food factories of the neighborhood. An installation by Felisia Tandiono and Marko Manriquez. www.catalogfelisia.com Press: http://inhabitat.com/nyc/the-best-green-designs-from-the-nyu-itp-2011-spring-student-show/itp-show-haze-state-1/ http://core77.com/gallery/itp-spring-show-2011/57.asp |
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