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Glowing critical praise for goldensmell
goldensmell is a radical seven-part olfactory intervention in which christöphilax's senses begin to take leave of her.
in the closing months of 2004, christöphilax suffered a further setback, a crushing blow that would be unbearable for lesser cultural artisans: a traumatic injury to her olfactor, resulting in the permanent loss of her ability to smell.
in the face of this incommensurable catastrophe, however, christöphilax has kept a characteristic stiff upper lip, embracing her latest disability with the gusto and relish we have come to expect from her.
goldensmell is christöphilax's personal testament to the waning of the most important of the senses.
goldensmell is a touching homage to odour and to the powers of olfaction.
goldensmell recreates, in the aural medium, the olfactory experience of some of the defining popular music events of the common era -- some originally attended by christöphilax, others imagined.
with goldensmell christöphilax poses -- and answers at considerable length -- numerous timely questions: in what does smell consist? what does it mean to smell properly? to smell differently? what is the odour of the other? how should we re-think questions of odour in a post-colonial context? can we speak of an ethics of odour? does smell have a gender? can we speak of a queer smell?