agar olfactory (based in chicago) is a project in speculative olfaction by agustine zegers. it imagines climate disaster and apocalyptic scenarios and the type of smell landscapes that would exist in such events. it collapses timespace by activating embodied intensities and inviting us to adjust our palettes as we peer into the future.

as a project, it acknowledges the layered (and currently unfolding) apocalypses of our time, including, but not limited to: the sixth mass extinction event, the colonial apocalypse of 1492, and the covid-19 pandemic.

the project offers wearable olfactory works to invite sustained engagement with quantum queer time and to allow somatic alignment with future ecological states and eras.

agar olfactory has been crucially nurtured by many mycelial collaborators, thinkers, and friends including but not limited to: Isabel Lee, Jesse Mackenzie, Lee Rae Walsh, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Oscar Salguero, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Egbert Vongmalaithong, Mariana Parisca, Constantina Zavitsanos, Grace Denis, Queer Art, Murmurs, Abrons Art Center, Everything, and Olfactory Art Keller.