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This Project is an approach to the social conditioning of what smells we as humans have learned to find repulsive. Much has to do with the human hygiene standards, which have developed through the sedentary nature of human and the division between rich and poor. Many of our body odors and pheromones communicate to our environment something about our health, which was originally important to assess the reproductive capacity of others. In this, a device connects the most "information loaded" body parts to the nose and mouth of the other person to smell only the "unpleasant" smell. In doing so, all other senses are, as much as possible, not usable/blocked since smell is very much understood by association of the visual and auditory. Due to human history this form of exchange has become extremely fetishized and devalued. | This Project is an approach to the social conditioning of what smells we as humans have learned to find repulsive. Much has to do with the human hygiene standards, which have developed through the sedentary nature of human and the division between rich and poor. Many of our body odors and pheromones communicate to our environment something about our health, which was originally important to assess the reproductive capacity of others. In this, a device connects the most "information loaded" body parts to the nose and mouth of the other person to smell only the "unpleasant" smell. In doing so, all other senses are, as much as possible, not usable/blocked since smell is very much understood by association of the visual and auditory. Due to human history this form of exchange has become extremely fetishized and devalued. | ||
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