Description

Viscose Journal #7 – Scent
Publisher: Viscose, 2024
Softcover, 127 pages, English
Size: 30x20cm
New in seal

Viscose is a new journal for fashion criticism. Launched between Copenhagen and New York in 2021, the irregular periodical will publish critical writing and projects by a wide range of authors from the worlds of art, fashion, literature, and academia. Through specially edited thematic issues, Viscose gives space to projects that challenge and expand the possibilities of research, practice, and critique of fashion.

Viscose 07 examines scent through a variety of lenses, observing its historical and contemporary role in fashion culture. The issue seeks out histories of projects—mainly developed with or by artists and designers—who have embraced and involved smell as a medium of possibility and knowledge production, gesturing to histories of manufacturing, trade, branding, and commerce, but also sexuality, desire, identity, and memory. With respect to the abstract knowledge of scent, we are in pursuit of accounts ranging from literature to philosophy that attempt to synthesize, much like perfume itself, the sensorial, capitalist, artistic, and scientific forces that make up scent in our modern world.

With contributions by:
Riley Agutter, Ana Howe Bukowski, Grégory Couderc, Emman, Hsuan L. Hsu, Masato Kanazawa, Olivia Kan-Sperling, Christos Karageorgos, Andreas Keller & Ro Miller, Nils Amadeus Lange, Whitney Mallett, Derek McCormack, Memory of Scent, Matt Morris, Jessica Murphy, Diane Severin Nguyen & Juje Hsiung, Elise by Olsen, Brian Pera, Davide Stucchi, Sissel Tolaas, Maki Ueda, Jeppe Ugelvig, Saskia Wilsonbrown