Smells of Resistance: Artist presentation and talk
with Alanna Lynch
August 24, 2024, 13.00
Skånes konstförening

Skånes konstförening hosts an artist talk by Alanna Lynch as part of the exhibition WHOSE MUSEUM: WAS HERE (August 23 – September 28, 2024). The international art collective and loose archival network WHOSE MUSEUM presents its first retrospective in Sweden across multiple venues in Malmö, such as Celsius Projects, Moderna Museet Malmö, Deseo Tattoo Studio, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö stadsarkiv and BienVélo. Alanna Lynch has been an associate of Whose Museum since 2019.

Smells can be potent atmospheric vectors that trigger memories and emotions. Alanna Lynch will talk about her research practice around smell, in relation the stink bombs in the Whose Museum collection as well as about more recent work. She will touch on what makes things stinky, why we perceive them as smelling bad, as well as issues around consent, communication, empowerment, toxicity and violence.

Artist bio:
Alanna Lynch is a Berlin-based artist and researcher from Canada working with living entities, organic materials, smell, and performance. Drawing on her background in biology, psychology, and information studies as well as from her own embodied experiences and activism, her work examines the politics of affect, questions of agency, and the stickiness of feelings. She has exhibited and performed internationally and her work has been supported by grants from Germany, Canada, and Sweden. She was a founding member of the artist collective Scent Club Berlin. In 2018 she was awarded the Berlin Art Prize.

About Whose Museum:
Whose Museum works with the participatory collecting of everyday objects, alternative conservation and archiving as an artistic practice. The premise of the museum is simple: anyone can donate anything to the collection. The items range from the banal to the bizarre, including drawings, discarded objects, prosthetic body parts, plants, songs, and ephemera.

Coffee and fika will be served.

The talk will be held in English.

Portrait by Senya Corda.