ABSTRAT
This study addresses the sense of smell as an articulator and mediator of/in the construction process of places and urban narratives. The artists Peter de Cupere and Hilda Kozári and, respectively, the works Smoke cloud (2013-2016) and Air, Smell of Helsinki, Budapest and Paris (2003), are shown as poetic actions in which the smell acts as a tactical element for data inference and the perception of spatial-temporal relations. To theoretically contextualize olfaction as a social and cultural phenomenon, we refer to Classen et al. (1994)CLASSEN, Constance; HOWES, David; SYNNOTT, Anthony. Aroma: the cultural history of smell. New York: Routledge, 1994. and Porteous (1990)PORTEOUS, J. Douglas. Landscapes of the mind: worlds of sense and metaphor. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990., while the artistic narratives presented provoke an exercise transgressive to visual hegemony. Thus, the smell is assumed as a phenomenal mode of activation of the urban space, recognizing its imprecision in the evocations and associations with landscapes, time and memory.
keywords:
cartographies; smellscapes; spatialities; urban narratives