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Odorant Peatlands / Ensayos, Kashina Foo Loi, Hsuan L. Hsu, Camila Marambio, He'many Molina, agustine zegers, Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel
Boxed sets
FA.SA7.3169
1 box (containing 4 perfume vials) ; 23 x 16 x 5 cm + 1 book (unpaged ; 22 cm)
2023
Kashina Foo Loi, Hsuan L. Hsu, Camila Marambio, agustine zegers, He'many Molina, Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel
bogs, cultural heritage, environmental impact, natural landscapes, odors, peat bogs, perfume, pine, smell, swamps, wetlands
Handmade cloth box containing staple bound (saddle stitched) book and four vials of perfume. Perfumes include Taaspen, Rich, Wolves in the Mire, and Jalo Gaba. Edition 5 of 12.
Table of Contents: 1. Swamp Bending / Camila Marambio + agustine zegers--2. A Bog is Not a Metaphor / Hsuan L. Hsu--3. Interlude / He'many Molina--4. Four Dispatches / Kashina
"The project "Odorant Peatlands" ("Turberas Olorosas" in Spanish) was born as an iteration of a prolonged, entangled, and decentralized engagement with global Peatlands initiated by the collective Ensayos. Ensayos is a collective research practice centered on de-extinction, multispecies dialogues, coastal health, and peatland protection. Initiated on the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego in Chile in 2010, Ensayos (meaning “inquiries”, “essays” or “rehearsals” in English) first focused solely on the ecopolitical issues impacting the Fuegian archipelago and its inhabitants. Now, other archipelagos have come into view, with research “pods” growing in Norway, New York, and Australia.
The first time some of these scents were shared with the public was as part of the Chilean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale's exhibition Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol, where Ensayos grouped a series of interdisciplinary collaborators (from artists and ecologists to indigenous activists) to create a multi-sensory environment representing peatlands. Before you, you can find a prolongation of this initial engagement by the title "Odorant Peatlands." This compact edition brings together the smells of the peatlands and swamplands of: Karokynká, Tierra del Fuego, Chile (Taaspen); Bog Hollow, New York, USA (Rich); Bogerudmyra, Oslo, Norway (Wolves in the Mire); and Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country, Australia (Jalo Gaba). They summon: the smells of wet earth and Sphagnum magellanicum (Taaspen); of beavers witnessing ecological destruction in North America (Rich); of wet animal fur and Scandinavian pines (Wolves in the Mire); and of coastal Australian flora supported by ancestral practices of slow burns (Jalo Gaba)."--Artist's statement
"TAASPEN
Karokynká Tierra del Fuego
Christy Gast (artist),
Camila Marambio (curator),
Denis Milstein (writer/sociologist),
He'many Molina (consultant),
agustine zegers (olfactory artist)
RICH
Bog Hollow, New York
Christy Gast (artist),
Camila Marambio (curator),
Denise Milstein (writer/sociologist),
agustine zegers (olfactory artist)
WOLVES IN THE MIRE
Bogerudmyra, Oslo
Camila Marambio (curator),
Randi Nygård (artist),
Karolina Tempere (curator),
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel (olfactory artist)
JALO GABA
Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country
Elisa Jane Carmichael (Quandamooka artist),
Freja Carmichael (Quandamooka curator),
Sonja Carmichael (Quandamooka artist),
Jasper Coleman (ceramicist),
Caitlin Franzmann (artist),
Camila Marambio (curator),
Renee Rossini (ecologist),
agustine zegers (olfactory artist)"--front matter
"The design of this edition alludes to bog bridges – uneven structures that force us to break with directionality in order to engage with the zig-zagging epistemologies of peatlands as we approach them. It also winks at the uneven geographies and lines of productive mis/communication that our boggy engagements entailed in the processes of distant collaboration. Similarly, the translation processes across English and Spanish were not conducted linearly, but multi-directionally, with an emphasis on making a distinct text in each language that held the poetic essence of itself and emergently became a new creation.
Typeset in:
Basic Commercial Pro (Linotype)
Neureal (ECAL)
This publication is born on the shoulders of the tentacular network of collective research pods by the name of Ensayos. Some of the scents appearing here were first shown at the collective exhibition Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol at the Chilean Pavilion of La Biennale di Venezia in 2022. While this particular iteration coalesces around collaboration of an olfactory nature, it honors every contributor (human and non-human) that has shaped this work since its germination in 2010.
Produced with generous support from Anonymous Was a Woman in partnership with The New York Foundation for the Arts.
Special thank you to Para la Naturaleza, El Lobi, and Johanna Hedva for hosting our learning and conversations in the process of producing this edition.
Translator: agustine zegers
Editors: Ric Tennenbaum, Simon López Trujillo"--from colophon
Table of Contents: 1. Swamp Bending / Camila Marambio + agustine zegers--2. A Bog is Not a Metaphor / Hsuan L. Hsu--3. Interlude / He'many Molina--4. Four Dispatches / Kashina
"The project "Odorant Peatlands" ("Turberas Olorosas" in Spanish) was born as an iteration of a prolonged, entangled, and decentralized engagement with global Peatlands initiated by the collective Ensayos. Ensayos is a collective research practice centered on de-extinction, multispecies dialogues, coastal health, and peatland protection. Initiated on the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego in Chile in 2010, Ensayos (meaning “inquiries”, “essays” or “rehearsals” in English) first focused solely on the ecopolitical issues impacting the Fuegian archipelago and its inhabitants. Now, other archipelagos have come into view, with research “pods” growing in Norway, New York, and Australia.
The first time some of these scents were shared with the public was as part of the Chilean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale's exhibition Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol, where Ensayos grouped a series of interdisciplinary collaborators (from artists and ecologists to indigenous activists) to create a multi-sensory environment representing peatlands. Before you, you can find a prolongation of this initial engagement by the title "Odorant Peatlands." This compact edition brings together the smells of the peatlands and swamplands of: Karokynká, Tierra del Fuego, Chile (Taaspen); Bog Hollow, New York, USA (Rich); Bogerudmyra, Oslo, Norway (Wolves in the Mire); and Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country, Australia (Jalo Gaba). They summon: the smells of wet earth and Sphagnum magellanicum (Taaspen); of beavers witnessing ecological destruction in North America (Rich); of wet animal fur and Scandinavian pines (Wolves in the Mire); and of coastal Australian flora supported by ancestral practices of slow burns (Jalo Gaba)."--Artist's statement
"TAASPEN
Karokynká Tierra del Fuego
Christy Gast (artist),
Camila Marambio (curator),
Denis Milstein (writer/sociologist),
He'many Molina (consultant),
agustine zegers (olfactory artist)
RICH
Bog Hollow, New York
Christy Gast (artist),
Camila Marambio (curator),
Denise Milstein (writer/sociologist),
agustine zegers (olfactory artist)
WOLVES IN THE MIRE
Bogerudmyra, Oslo
Camila Marambio (curator),
Randi Nygård (artist),
Karolina Tempere (curator),
Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel (olfactory artist)
JALO GABA
Minjerribah, Quandamooka Country
Elisa Jane Carmichael (Quandamooka artist),
Freja Carmichael (Quandamooka curator),
Sonja Carmichael (Quandamooka artist),
Jasper Coleman (ceramicist),
Caitlin Franzmann (artist),
Camila Marambio (curator),
Renee Rossini (ecologist),
agustine zegers (olfactory artist)"--front matter
"The design of this edition alludes to bog bridges – uneven structures that force us to break with directionality in order to engage with the zig-zagging epistemologies of peatlands as we approach them. It also winks at the uneven geographies and lines of productive mis/communication that our boggy engagements entailed in the processes of distant collaboration. Similarly, the translation processes across English and Spanish were not conducted linearly, but multi-directionally, with an emphasis on making a distinct text in each language that held the poetic essence of itself and emergently became a new creation.
Typeset in:
Basic Commercial Pro (Linotype)
Neureal (ECAL)
This publication is born on the shoulders of the tentacular network of collective research pods by the name of Ensayos. Some of the scents appearing here were first shown at the collective exhibition Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol at the Chilean Pavilion of La Biennale di Venezia in 2022. While this particular iteration coalesces around collaboration of an olfactory nature, it honors every contributor (human and non-human) that has shaped this work since its germination in 2010.
Produced with generous support from Anonymous Was a Woman in partnership with The New York Foundation for the Arts.
Special thank you to Para la Naturaleza, El Lobi, and Johanna Hedva for hosting our learning and conversations in the process of producing this edition.
Translator: agustine zegers
Editors: Ric Tennenbaum, Simon López Trujillo"--from colophon
