»Kultur denken. Season 8 Episode 2: OLFAC with Brandon Woolf

Garlic’s notorious smell—lingering on our breath and at our tables—has historically been weaponized by colonial and hegemonic powers as a means of othering and oppression. What might olfaction, and odor more broadly, offer as a lens ( a nostril?) through which to interrogate socio-political relations? How and when do we abandon our fellow citizens and living things because of their odor? What do we risk by actually smelling each other? What stinks about our civic lives, and how could they smell more like Bärlauchsuppe? The OLFAC Symposium, held in December 2025 at the ifk in Vienna, was organized by Silke Felber, Freda Fiala, and Julia Ostwald as part of the ERC Consolidator Project OLFAC. More information is available at olfac.kunstuni-linz.at. Interviews/ Redaktion/ Moderation: Katharina Rahn Sound Editing: Paul Jones