Osmodrama

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Osmodrama (from the Greek osme (smell) and ancient Greek dráma (action)) denotes, on the one hand, the performance of olfactory art using the olfactory organ Smeller 2.0 , and on the other hand, the Osmodrama - Storytelling with Scents festival , which was launched for the performance and which takes place for the first time in summer Took place in 2016 in Berlin.

Creator and initiator is the project-leading artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf .

history

With Osmodrama , Wolfgang Georgsdorf started an extensive project in 2012 in which smells are implemented as art. The actual beginnings of his olfactory art go back to the creation of the smeller in 1990. Osmodrama is an experimental art form that correlates with the technical possibilities of the smeller .

As a continuing project, Osmodrama is largely financed through donations and is known as Osmodrama e. V. registered in the register of associations.

The festival

The first festival for olfactory art Osmodrama - Storytelling with Scents took place from July 15, 2016 to September 18, 2016 in the St. Johannes Evangelist Church in Berlin-Mitte. Within the festival, visitors were able to experience different staging of olfactory sequences as art. The program included readings, concerts, films, workshops, panel discussions with international artists and cultural workers as well as scientists. The odor accompanied films were The other home - Chronicle of a desire by Edgar Reitz , continuity of Omer Fast and No (i) se of Wolfgang Georgsdorf shown.

Other participants in the festival were Eva Mattes , Carl Stone , Julia Kissina , Nikola Madzirov, Hanns Hatt , Geza Schön, Stephen Crowe, Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, Simon van der Geest , Phill Niblock , Sam Auinger , Aisha Orazbayeva, Tom Jackson, Samuel Stoll, Filip Caranica.

The Osmodrama - Storytelling with Scents festival was implemented in cooperation with the international literature festival Berlin , Radialsystem V , through sponsors such as the Schering Foundation and a crowdfunding.

Osmodrama in the media

There are national and international reports on Osmodrama . Among other things, in Die Zeit , in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , on Deutschlandfunk , in the program Titel-Thesen-Temperamente or in Science ORF .

Awards

On May 6, 2017, the US Institute for Art and Olfaction awarded Osmodrama the Sadakichi Award for experimental work with scent .

The jury of the Dresden Center for Science and Art nominated Osmodrama - Smeller - Osmodrom  for the Art and Science Prize 2017 on June 22, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Osmodrama Festival Berlin 2016 July 15 - September 18 | Events | Osmodrama . In: Osmodrama . ( osmodrama.com [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Credits | Osmodrama . In: Osmodrama . ( osmodrama.com [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Rabea Weihser: Smeller 2.0: The madness machine . In: The time . July 24, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Carolin Pirich: The Drama Aroma . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 3, 2016, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  5. ↑ 'Osmodrama' - Berlin's Festival for Scent Art - Smellodies and Synosmies . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Das Erste: Video 'A Festival for the Art of Smell' - ttt - title, theses, temperaments. July 31, 2016, accessed June 7, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Time travel with the odor organ - science.ORF.at . In: science.ORF.at . November 17, 2016 ( orf.at [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  8. ^ Sadakichi Award . In: The Art and Olfaction Awards . September 19, 2016 ( artandolfactionawards.org [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  9. ↑ NEWS | DZWK. Accessed November 20, 2017 (German).