Glass Tasting is an ongoing art-based method developed within my PhD project Embodiment of the Volatile. The Ability to Notice That a Substance Is Present. Or: How Glass Becomes Odor.

The project explores olfactory imagery—the ability to imagine smell in the absence of a physical stimulus—as a subjective and elusive process.  Because olfactory memory and imagination are deeply individual and biographical, Glass Tasting is conceived as a performative experiment to explore whether multisensory artistic stimuli and the odorless material of glass can serve as a projection surface for imagined olfactory experiences.

A Glass Tasting combines guided narration, non-figurative drawings (textures, shapes, and colors), tactile interaction, sound, and crafted glass objects. The format is interactive and playful, designed to focus attention while activating sensorimotor processes that may evoke olfactory memory. Participants are invited to reflect on their sense of smell and on the imaginative dimension of olfaction.