Exposition

An Alphabet for the Nose. (2011)

Sissel Tolaas

About this exposition

Given that our societies have developed a language for colour, it is remarkable that we have not yet developed one for smell. Generally, when we categorize smells we only use the subjective connotations ‘like it’ or ‘don’t like it’. This is why I began to invent the first words for a language of smells, which I named NASALO. After nearly twenty years of collecting and archiving smells and dozens of artistic research projects on smell and smelling, NASALO has developed into an alphabet for the nose with its own logic and linguistic rules.
typeresearch exposition
date01/01/2011
published20/11/2011
last modified15/10/2012
statuspublished
share statusprivate
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/7344/7350/40/40
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.7344
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue0.


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7513 Re_searchLab Berlin Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7514 Sissel Tolaas - Nothing stinks Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7503 Work in progress (2) Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7504 Smelling the bacteria Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7505 work in progress Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7506 Details Creative Center Berlin Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7507 Details of the Lab (2) Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7508 Details of Lab Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7509 Overview of Lab Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7510 The smell archive Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7511 Quote from Smell & Language Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7512 exposition title Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7496 FEAR Exhibition Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7497 bio Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7498 Simulation / smell reproduction, process Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7499 FEAR Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7500 Work in progress (5) Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7501 Work in progress (4) Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7502 Work in progress (3) Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7489 NASALO Dictionary Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7490 footnote 1: FEAR exhibitions Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7479 Research Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7480 Tolerance Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7481 smell=information Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7482 Liverpool Biennial 2006 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7483 FEAR- part II Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7484 FEAR=CHEESE = BACTERIA/SMELL - part II Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7485 FEAR/CHEES = BACTERIA/SMELL Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7486 NASALO Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7487 Diana Ackerman quote Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7488 NASALO cloud Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7475 Photo: Frank Paul Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7476 Frank Paul Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7477 SWEAT FEAR | FEAR SWEAT, 2005 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7494 triangle-right Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7495 triangle-left Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7492 New Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7493 triangle-right Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7491 test Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7478 triangle right - II Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7347 Simulation / smell reproduction, process. (4) #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7470 Smellarchive 1990-1997 #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7466 Re_searchLab Berlin #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7462 Details of Lab #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7458 Overview of Lab #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7448 Details of Lab (2) #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7450 Details Creative Center, Lab Berlin #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7446 Work in Process (3) #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7442 Work in Process (2) #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7436 Work in Process (5) #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7432 Work in Process (4) #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7414 triangle-left #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7416 triangle-right #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7412 triangle-right #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7406 Smelling the bacteria #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7398 Liverpool Biennial 2006 #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7399 Liverpool Biennial 2006 #1 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7400 Liverpool Biennial 2006 #2 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7401 Liverpool Biennial 2006 #3 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7402 Liverpool Biennial 2006 #4 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7403 Liverpool Biennial 2006 #5 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7404 Liverpool Biennial 2006 #6 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7380 FEAR - various images #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7381 FEAR - various images #1 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7382 FEAR - various images #2 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7383 FEAR - various images #3 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7384 FEAR - various images #4 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7385 FEAR - various images #5 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7386 FEAR - various images #6 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7387 FEAR - various images #7 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7388 FEAR - various images #8 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7389 FEAR - various images #9 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7390 FEAR - various images #10 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7391 FEAR - various images #11 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7392 FEAR - various images #12 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7393 FEAR - various images #13 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7394 FEAR - various images #14 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7395 FEAR - various images #15 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7396 FEAR - various images #16 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7374 triangle right - II #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7371 Simulation / smell reproduction, process. #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7372 Simulation / smell reproduction, process. #1 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7366 Process simulation #0 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7367 Process simulation #1 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7368 Process simulation #2 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved
7369 Process simulation #3 Sissel Tolaas All rights reserved

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