{"id":547,"date":"2014-03-06T15:28:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=547"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:14:53","slug":"8-3-on-smell","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/8-3-on-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"8.3 On Smell"},"content":{"rendered":"

In western culture, smell is the most undervalued of all the senses, as evidenced not least by the linguistic adoption of sensorial terms for commendation or compliment as opposed to the mainly derogatory examples that use smell \u2013 with the exception, perhaps, of the slightly ambivalent \u2018fragrant\u2019. The demotion of smell in western cultures in line with the advances of rationalism and sanitation, would appear to be concurrent with a similar \u2018deodorization of theatre\u2019 that occurs with Naturalism. Smell is enjoying a renaissance in both theatre and scientific research. The relationships between smell and performance are diverse, as are its historical precedents. On Smell investigates the olfactory in performance as an aesthetic or representational strategy, as a potential for new performance work, as well as in its performative aspects in daily life, and in discourses about smell, especially in regard to identity, commodification, psychology, neurology, medicine, therapy and environmentalism.
\nEditorial
\nRichard Gough, Judie Christie
\npp. 1 – 2
\nWinter Day – in the month of February, in the year of 2003, somewhere near the Canada\/USA border
\nMillie Chen
\npp. 3 – 10
\nSmelling Voices: Cooking in the Theatre
\nEleanor Margolies
\npp. 11 – 22
\nWhat Remains [artist’s pages]
\nSophia New
\npp. 23 – 28
\nTrafficking in Air
\nJim Drobnick
\npp. 29 – 43
\nNosing Around: A Singapore scent trail
\nPaul Rae, Low Kee Hong
\npp. 44 – 54
\nFrom the Hideous to the Sublime: Olfactory processes, performance texts and sensory episteme
\nZachar Laskewicz
\npp. 55 – 65
\nOn the Scent [artist’s pages]
\nLeslie Hill, Helen Paris
\npp. 66 – 72
\nWriting the Olfactory in the Live Performance Review
\nMatthew Reason
\npp. 73 – 84
\nSniffable Media
\nScott deLahunta
\npp. 85 – 86
\nSmellbytes: The smells of my imagination
\nJenny Marketou
\npp. 87 – 89
\nLiving Flacons: Fragrant performance – performing fragrance by women in Sanaa (Yemen)
\nDinah Jung
\npp. 90 – 93
\nFinding Oneself through the Perfumes of Memory: An interview with Enrique Vargas
\nRichard Gough, Judie Christie
\npp. 94 – 103
\nOlfactory Translations and Interpretations
\nRaewyn Turner
\npp. 104 – 112
\nBecoming Carnival: Performing a postmodern identity
\nTed Hiebert
\npp. 113 – 125
\nExcerpts from ‘Brownout! Part 2’
\nGuillermo G\u00f3mez-Pe\u00f1a
\npp. 126 – 135
\nPerformance Review: Estuary Language
\nRobert Ayers
\npp. 136 – 138
\nBook Review: Recuperating the Marginalized
\nSarah Parry
\npp. 138 – 140
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 141 – 142<\/p>\n\n\n