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

Horror In Architecture - Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing
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Horror In Architecture - Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing

If it contained nothing more than the joyful riffing on semi-detached housing as essentially bi-polar, this book would make a splendid read. As it is, the authors mine the links between horror's visceral tropes and the creeping distortions which characterize even the most innocuous of buildings. This is a hugely enjoyable series of musings on the social pathology represented so emphatically and so ubiquitously in our build environment. Much of it is playful and at times hilarious but underlying the book's central conceit are some acutely pertinent observations which go to the heart of how architecture expresses the wilder shores of a cultural unconscious. Unlike the most traumatic of nightmares, these aberrations persist with unsettling tenacity.

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"... the Latin root of our English word 'attention' is tenere, which means to stretch or make tense. External objects provide an attachment point for the mind; they can pull us out of ourselves. But only if they are treated 'as' external objects, with a reality of their own."
- Matthew Crawford, 2015, The World Beyond Your Head