☁️SCENT IS PRESENT: Publication PRE-ORDER ☁️
Smell resists notation, classification, and above all, capture. Every being has a specific scent, yet scent belongs to nothing and no one.
What does it mean to write about something that so clearly defies the structure of a sentence, a paragraph or even a word? Writing about scent might sound contradictory, yet that contradiction is precisely where this publication begins.
Scent is Present is an experimental publication exploring the ephemeral notion of olfaction. Through essays, exercises, and artistic contributions, it challenges the limits of language, inviting readers to engage with scent as a non-linear, sensory, and embodied phenomenon. Contributors including olfactory artists, scent designers, and sound artists share their practices and reflections that foreground smell in political and ecological contexts.
With active scent exercises throughout the publication such as scent walks, writing prompts, and multisensory experiments, the publication explores and questions engagement with odours, and how odours affect our memories and environment. Scent is Present positions scent as political, while being also subjective and personal.
The publication stems from a workshop by the same name, carried out in
@petrohradska_kolektiv in the summer of 2025 by
@sleepy.press and
@michaela_cagan . The workshop accompanied
@holo_s_ exhibition ‘AUTOCHORA’ at
@jednadvatrigallery .
HOW TO ORDER?
DM -
@michaela_cagan
with a chosen price and your address
(physical pick-up possible Lisbon, Bratislava, Amsterdam)
Price sliding scale 💶
18 eur - Covers the costs
22 eur - Covers also some fee of the creators
26 eur - Supports independent collectives
/If you are really interested in the publication and truly cannot afford it, message us!
Design:
@supermarketkovitost &
@kml_vls
Workshop participants:
Magdalena Škerenčák,
@nelacaramela ,
@eva.fajcikova ,
@st.feral , Jasmína Horváthová,
@karokuc , Dunja, Varya Starodubova,
@ondrejtrhon , sof, Gabriele Sláma, Kristýna Šuleková, Iman, K, Lucy, Maëlle Magnin-Feysot
Other contributors:
@_romans.kaa_ ,
@lilatesla_ ,
@oh.so.many.narratives ,
@lilatesla_ ,
@m.iliv .
