Sissel Tolaas – Past Concerts

Sissel Tolaas (born in Norway, based in Berlin) has been working, researching, and experimenting intensively with the topic of smell since 1990. She is a pioneer and very unique in her approach to smells. She has developed a wide range of revolutionary interdisciplinary projects worldwide with smells based upon her own knowledge –– forensic chemistry, chemical communication, sensory ecology, linguistics, and visual art. Tolaas established the SMELL RE_searchLab Berlin in January 2004.

Tolaas has unique skills in smell recognition, analysis, and reproduction. She has developed notable methods for coding abstract smell molecules and tracking linguistic reactions to individual smell molecules and smells in general. She has researched and experienced smells in many ways and in multiple diverse contexts and for multiple purposes and formats.
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Her research and projects have won recognition through numerous national and international scholarships, honours, and prizes. She is very capable at collaborating intensively with those of other disciplines across the globe.