Smell it again
A solo performance on the ethics of waste, disgust, and politics of refusal
Keywords: transgenerational, elders women, memory, ethnographic theatre, dystopian future, collective care, performative archiving
Ideation, dramaturgy and direction
Carlo Sella
Supervision
María Heras
Technical support and external eyes
Catherine de Jaroueh
Laura Chica Castells
Emilie de Bassonpierre
Emma Marzi
Francesco Bignardi
Link to the video trailer ︎ ︎︎︎ HERE
A solo performance on the ethics of waste, disgust, and politics of refusal
Keywords: transgenerational, elders women, memory, ethnographic theatre, dystopian future, collective care, performative archiving
Ideation, dramaturgy and direction
Carlo Sella
Supervision
María Heras
Technical support and external eyes
Catherine de Jaroueh
Laura Chica Castells
Emilie de Bassonpierre
Emma Marzi
Francesco Bignardi
Link to the video trailer ︎ ︎︎︎ HERE
Smell It Again is an interactive solo performance that explores the emotional, ecological, and political dimensions of waste.
The piece connects personal acts of disposal to global networks of extraction, labour, and environmental injustice.Produced for the Days of Climate Justice, Socio- Environmental Movements, and Ecofeminism at the University of Girona, and awarded the ArtCircuit Prize for emerging artists in Barcelona, the show combines irony, vulnerability, and critical reflection.
Through a series of characters and provocations, it asks: what do we expel from ourlives, and at what cost? Inspired by the overlooked labour of waste workers, the performance traces the afterlife of objects and materials, linking European and North American garbage practices to larger stories of survival, colonial legacies, and ecological collapse. It uses the language of the body (disgust, decay, leakage, resistance) to question how our personal and societal boundaries are maintained.Adaptable to both theatres and public space, Smell It Again invites audiences to re-smell, re- feel, and re-think their relationship with waste. It offers a visceral, unsettling, and ultimately generative encounter with what we are taught to turn away from.
The piece connects personal acts of disposal to global networks of extraction, labour, and environmental injustice.Produced for the Days of Climate Justice, Socio- Environmental Movements, and Ecofeminism at the University of Girona, and awarded the ArtCircuit Prize for emerging artists in Barcelona, the show combines irony, vulnerability, and critical reflection.
Through a series of characters and provocations, it asks: what do we expel from ourlives, and at what cost? Inspired by the overlooked labour of waste workers, the performance traces the afterlife of objects and materials, linking European and North American garbage practices to larger stories of survival, colonial legacies, and ecological collapse. It uses the language of the body (disgust, decay, leakage, resistance) to question how our personal and societal boundaries are maintained.Adaptable to both theatres and public space, Smell It Again invites audiences to re-smell, re- feel, and re-think their relationship with waste. It offers a visceral, unsettling, and ultimately generative encounter with what we are taught to turn away from.
