Homeland Smells. Matt Morris’ olfactory art works

copyright Matt Morris: Copy Cat Killer

King, Dorothée and Morris, Matt in Conversation: Copycat Kill or Smelling a Sense of Home. In Burchert, Linn: Atem. Breath, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. 235-244.

For a long time, I have been fascinated by the artistic and participatory possibilities of ephemeral materials in exhibition contexts. I have been researching the social and aesthetic implications of sensory experiences in various museum projects, classrooms, and publications.
In 2018 I met the artist Matt Morris at the 106th College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, for which our smell-art-loving colleagues Debra Parr and Gwen-Aël Lynn organized a panel on “Olfactory Art and the Political”…