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

Hyocentre
Clair And Max

Hyocentre

Hypocentre shows us briefly and through clever deception, the unsettling sight of central Paris entirely empty of people. This is a technique we have seen in Masataka Nakano's astounding book Tokyo Nobody from 1996. The difference here is that we are looking at video footage. Despite the movement of escalators, the odd traffic light and a lonely plastic bag, there is nothing. Once one has finished puzzling just how this was achieved, there is time to ponder the myriad other questions posed about our cities, their purpose and our habitation of them.

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"Indeed the Ongees believe that, by altering their body odors through the application of clay paint, they can communicate with all other beings. This communication through smell is called, minyelange which literally means to remember."
- Constance Classen, 1993, Worlds Of Sense:Exploring The Senses in History And Across Cultures