Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

Abandoned asylums
Jeremy Harris

Abandoned asylums

Photographs of defunct American insane asylums. As a document of a vanishing era of mental health care and the architectural response to sometimes discredited or outmoded notions of treatment Jeremy Harris's pictures are both fascinating and valuable.

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"In the culture of the Dogon people of Mali, for example, odour and sound are considered to be fundamentally alike because they both travel on air. The Dogon will therefore speak of "hearing" a smell. Furthermore speech is said to have a odour. "
- Classen, Howes & Synnott, 1994, Aroma: The Cultural History Of Smell