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

Electric Mountains - Thomas Kneubühler
Thomas Kneubühler.

Electric Mountains - Thomas Kneubühler

This series of images, showing the nocturnal illumination of deserted ski-runs, delivers, quite aside from the intriguing beauty of the photographs, a layered and complex set of observations about landscape and our use of it. Encrusted with gem-like illuminations, formed and shaped for a seasonal leisure activity, this seemingly pristine set of views bears witness to a sprawling and careless remaking of terrain while simultaneously reading as something filmic and "unreal". This transition into fictional, otherworldly splendor steals the moment in which we might apprehend damage or misuse.

Dark Silence in Suburbia
"The shaman asked him if he was having any visions. When Luna said that he was not, the shaman took some perfume in his mouth, mixed it with tobacco smoke, and blew it directly on the top of his head. At that moment Luna reported that visions literally exploded in his brain"
- John J. Steel, 1992, The Anthropology Of Smell and Scent in Ancient Egypt and South American Shamanism