The Scent Table
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Cnr of Swanston St and Masson Rd, Parkville
The Scent Table invites you to encounter air not as empty space, but as an active, living medium shaped by movement, bodies, and materials. Through the act of blending your own scent, you will contribute to a growing collection of scent compositions, forming a shared record of how different people sense and shape their environment. What begins as an individual gesture becomes part of a larger, evolving system—one that is relational and constantly in flux.
By treating scent as both material and messenger, the work proposes atmosphere as a site of exchange between human and non-human forces. Knowledge here is not fixed or hierarchical, but emerges through interaction and co-presence, like a garden of shifting relations where perception, matter and meaning are continually reconfigured.
Extending from the current exhibition, A velvet ant, a flower and bird, The Scent Table proposes intelligence as living, evolving, and relational.
This activity is suitable for all ages (under 12 to be supervised by a parent) and will take up to 20 minutes. You’re welcome to drop in anytime between 11am and 3pm to create your own scent to take home.