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NOSE-STALGIA
Kunstlicht vol. 44 (2022), no. 2  
Deadline: December 19, 2022
Guest Editor: Sofia Collette Ehrich and Amarens Eggeraat

In our everyday life, nostalgia (“a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition”) often equates to some sort of past aesthetic or sound – the playlist of Nemo’s Dreamscapes on YouTube (“Oldies music playing in another room and it’s raining, w/fire crackling + windstorm”), for example. Many of us constantly long to connect to and experience a piece of the past. But so far, it seems that nostalgia is mostly being explored through audiovisual mediums, missing many of the ways that nostalgia can actually be felt. This is where smell can play a significant part.

In many ways, smells and the act of smelling have been overlooked in arts, culture and media. But our sense of smell is directly linked with our brain’s limbic system, meaning that when we smell it has the power to activate and imprint on our memory and emotion. This makes our sense of smell a powerful way to connect with our own past and perhaps even connect strongly to those of other people, places, and times.

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