Lauryn Mannigel

Lauryn Mannigel is an artist-researcher living and working in Berlin (DE) and Tempe (US), pursuing a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. Mannigel challenges the Western dominance of visual epistemology by exploring non-visual modalities such as smell, hearing, touch, and taste while addressing diverse social and cultural inequalities. She creates experiential and discursive social spaces that explore the Aesthetic and Political Potential of People’s Smell. In this line of work, she has exhibited performative experiments such as Scents of Belonging (2023-), Something in the Air (2022-), Smell Feel Match (2019), I Smell a Rat (2019), Eat Me (2018), and Love Sweat Love (2016) in several countries across the Western hemisphere and India. Mannigel has also presented at conferences such as EASST-4S (2024), Uncommon Senses IV (2023), EuroScience Open Forum (2022), ECRO2021, and Taboo-Transgression- & Transcendence (2020).